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Walter Map
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“Meum est propositum in taberna mori: Vinum sit appositum morientis ori, Ut dicant cum venerint angelorum chori, Deus sit propitius huic potatori! Poculis accenditur animi lucerna; Cor imbutum nectare volat ad superna: Mihi sapit dulcius vinum in taberna, Quam quod aqua miscuit præsulis pincerna.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Drinking song, forming a portion of his poem, Confessio Goliæ, ll. 45–52. Translated by Leigh Hunt (Addit. MS. 14,343, Brit. Museum): quoted by C. W. Bingham in Notes and Queries, 2nd ser., vol. 8, no. 192 (3 September …
“Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 1, Chapter 24 (tr. M. R. James et al., 1983)
“The Cistercians...are wholly strange to the use of flesh. 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.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 1, Chapter 24 (tr. M. R. James, 1923)
“Vadis quo uis, morieris ubi debes.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 2, Chapter 19 (tr. M. R. James, 1923), quoting a 'soldier's proverb'
“Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 4, Chapter 4 (tr. M. R. James, 1923)
“Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 4, Chapter 5 (tr. M. R. James, 1923)
“The hatred which is the degenerate product of love is the stubbornest.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 4, Chapter 15 (tr. M. R. James, 1923)