Geoffrey of Monmouth (flourished c. 12th century)
“Human beings are conditioned by the chance happenings of history: it follows that those who have been enemies sometimes become friends and that those who have run away may yet achieve victory.”
- From Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain (IV.8), completed in 1136, translated from Latin into English by Lewis Thorpe (Penguin Classics, 1966).
