Significant Quotes Flashcards

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“A women wants the selfsame sovereignty / Over her husband as over her lover / And master him; he must not be above her” (author/title/period)

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Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” of the Middle Ages

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“Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote/ The droughte of March hath perced to the roote” (author/title/period)

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Chaucer’s “General Prologue” of the Middle Ages

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“Radix malorum eat cupiditas” or “The love of money is the root of all evil” (author/title/period)

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Chaucer’s “The Pardoners Tale” of the middle ages

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“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” (author/title/period)

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Homer’s “The Odyssey” of Ancient Greece

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“And if you find I’ve lied, from this day on call the prophet blind” (author/title/period)

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Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” of Ancient Greece

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“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were not allowed to move their heads?” (author/title/period)

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Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” of Ancient Greece

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“Mother dear, I can’t finish my weaving / You May blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that boy” (author/title/period)

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Sappho’s “It’s no use” of Ancient Greece

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“I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace” (author/title/period)

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Pericles’ “Funeral Oration” of Ancient Greece

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“Of arms and the man I sing” (author/title/period)

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Virgil’s “The Aeneid” of the Roman period

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“Muse, how it all began. Why was Juno outraged? What could wound the Queen of the Gods with all her power? (author/title/period)

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Virgil’s “The Aeneid” of the Roman period

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“Love is a finder, always” (author/title/period)

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Ovid’s “The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe” in The Metamorphoses of the Roman period

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“A man must conquer pride, not kill it” (author/title/period)

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“The Seafarer” translated by Burton Raffel during the Anglo-Saxon period

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“Do not give way to pride. For a brief while your strength is in bloom but it fades quickly: and soon there will follow illness or the sword to lay you low.” (author/title/period)

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“Beowulf” of the Anglo-Saxon period (author unknown)

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