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1
Q

“His soul fled from his breast to its destined place among the steadfast ones”

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Beowulf

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2
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“They said that of all the kings upon earth He was the man most gracious and fair-minded, Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame”

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Beowulf

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3
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“Wise sir, do not grieve. It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark”

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Beowulf to Hrothgar after his favorite retainer dies

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4
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“He who advises that we should reject this pact, does not care, lord, what sort of death we die. Arrogant advice should not prosper; Let us avoid fools and heed the wise.”

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Ganelon

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5
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“He begins to tear at his white beard. With both hands he pulls the hair from his head. A hundred thousand Franks fall to the ground in a faint.”

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Describes Charlemagne when he finds Roland’s body

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6
Q 
Friends and kinsmen
flocked to his ranks,
young followers, a force
that grew to be a mighty
army. So his mind
turned to hall-building
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Hrothgar

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7
Q 
“God forbid that my
kinsmen should incur
reproach because of
me or that the fair land
of France shall fall into
disrepute. No, I shall
strike many a blow with
Durendal.”
A

Roland

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8
Q 
“You will not go in my
place; you are not my
vassal and I am not
your lord. Charles
orders me to carry out
his mission.”
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Ganelon

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9
Q 
He beseeches God to
grant him paradise, and
he blessed Charles and
their fair land of
France, and his
companion Roland
above all men.
A

Oliver

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10
Q

Many of the women in the family, I tell you truly, were born without noses and lived noseless.

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Marie de France

Lai of Bisclavret

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11
Q 
To conceal his
wickedness he jumped
feet first into the tub,
completely naked. He
paid no heed to the
danger involved and
was scalded to death.
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Marie de France

Lai of Equitan

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12
Q 
Women frequently
made advances to him,
but he was indifferent
to them. He showed no
visible interest in love
and was thus
considered a lost cause
by stranger and friend
alike.
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Marie de France

Lai of Guigemar

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13
Q 
He placed his dear wife
together with his first
one and the latter
received her as her
sister and showed her
great honor.
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Marie de France

Lai of Eludic

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14
Q 
“How I came to it, I
cannot rightly say, so
drugged and loose with
sleep had I become
when I first wandered
there from the True
Way
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Dante

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15
Q 
“Shipmates, who
through a hundred
thousand perils have
reached the West, do
not deny to the brief
remaining watch our
senses stand experience
of the world beyond
the sun.”
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Ulysses

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16
Q 
“I was born, though
late, sub Julio, and
bred in Rome under
Augustus in the noon
of the false and lying
gods.”
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Virgil

17
Q

Greeks! You were not born to live like brutes

but to press onward toward manhood and recognition!

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Dante’s Inferno

Ulysses

18
Q 
“Since I was twelve
years old, thanks be to
eternal God, I have
had five husbands at
the church door.”
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Wife of Bath

19
Q

This young wife was
lovely; her body as
graceful and slim as a
weasel’s.

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Alisonn

20
Q

I would rather be stabbed
because of the true love I have for you
than have you fail to keep your word of honor.
Honor is the highest thing that man can hold.

A

The Franklin’s Tale

Arveragus

21
Q

I will grant you life if you can tell me

What thing it is that women most desire

A

The Wife of Bath’s Tale

Queen

22
Q

I was gap-toothed, and that became me well.

A

The Wife of Bath

23
Q 
“If I live to be as old as
Sibylla, I die as chaste
as Diana unless I be
obtained by the
manner of my father’s
will.”
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Portia

24
Q

“In sooth, I know not
why I am so sad. It
wearies me, you say it
wearied you.

A

Antonio

25
Q 
“I am married to a
wife, which is as dear to
me as life itself. But life
itself, my wife, and all
the world are not with
me esteemed above thy
life.”
A

Bassanio

26
Q 
“The villainy you teach
me I will execute, and
it shall go hard but I
will better the
instruction.”
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Shylock

27
Q

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

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Shylock

28
Q

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

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Portia

29
Q 
“When one considers
the men proposed to
me as models for my
imitation, it is no
wonder that in this way
I was swept along by
vanities and travelled
right away from you,
my God.”
A

Augustine

30
Q 
He had already embraced
the humility that befits
your mysteries, and tamed
his body to tough
discipline by asceticism of
extraordinary boldness: he
went barefoot on the icy
soil of Italy.
A

Alypius

31
Q

For to love this world is to break troth with you, yet men applaud and are ashamed otherwise. I did not weep over this, but instead I wept for Dido, who surrendered her life to the sword, while I forsook you and surrendered myself to the lowest of your created things.

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Augustine

32
Q

On the contrary, It is said in the person of God: I am Who am.

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Aquinas

33
Q

We can say that cruelty is used well (if it is permissible to talk in this way of what is evil) when it is employed once for all, and one’s safety depends on it, and then it is not persisted in but as far as possible turned to the good of one’s subjects.

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The Prince (Machiavelli)

34
Q

One cannot call it virtue to kill one’s fellow citizens, to betray one’s friends, to be without faith, without compassion, without religion. These modes may be used to acquire rule but not glory.

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The Prince (Machiavelli)

35
Q

A prudent man should always enter by paths beaten by great men and imitate those who have been the most excellent, so that if his virtue does not arrive there, at least it gives off some scent of it.

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The Prince (Machiavelli)

36
Q 
“That prince who
creates this opinion of
himself has a very great
reputation; and against
anyone who has a
reputation it is difficult
to conspire.”
A

The Prince (Machiavelli)

37
Q 
“One thing, and only
one thing, is necessary
for Christian life,
righteousness, and
freedom. That one
thing is the most holy
Word of God.”
A

Luther

38
Q 
“I am afraid that our
eyes are bigger than
our stomachs, and that
we have more curiosity
than understanding.
We grasp at everything,
but catch nothing
except wind.
A

Montaigne

39
Q

They are intended to teach man to know himself, that through them he may recognize his inability to do good and may despair of his own ability.

A

Luther

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