Walter Map Quotes

• Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

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  Healing, Hands, Surgeons

  c.1181 De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.4.

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• Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

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  Alive, Faults, I Am Alive

  c.1181 On the refusal of many of his contemporaries to believe that his Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum could have been composed by a modern writer. De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.5.

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• The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

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  Hate, Degenerates, Persistent

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• Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

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  Boys, Rose, Monk

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• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

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  Death, Drinking, Alcohol

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• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

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  Pigs, Feet, Numbers

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