The Bhagavad Gita (dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE)
"When the mind
is led by
the roving senses,
then it steals
one's wisdom
like the wind
steals...
In the colorful painting above, artist John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) brings to life the framework story of The Decameron, a masterpiece of literature written...
In the action-packed scene above, the German artist Emil Doepler (c. 1855–1922) recreated an apocalyptic showdown between figures from Norse mythology. On the Right,...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Differing wherein from the idolater,
But that he worships one, a hundred ye?"
Dante Alighieri’s Divine...
Around 585, Bishop Gregory Of Tours (c. 539-594) traveled through a community called Carignan, located where the Chiers and the Meuse Rivers meet. A...
In the colorful painting above, artist John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) brings to life the framework story of The Decameron, a masterpiece of literature written...
In the action-packed scene above, the German artist Emil Doepler (c. 1855–1922) recreated an apocalyptic showdown between figures from Norse mythology. On the Right,...
In the scene displayed above, the British illustrator William Greatbach (c. 1802-1885) brought to life a pre-battle speech said to have occurred in the...
In the action-packed scene above, the German artist Emil Doepler (c. 1855–1922) recreated an apocalyptic showdown between figures from Norse mythology. On the Right,...
In the scene displayed above, the British illustrator William Greatbach (c. 1802-1885) brought to life a pre-battle speech said to have occurred in the...
In the action-packed scene above, the German artist Emil Doepler (c. 1855–1922) recreated an apocalyptic showdown between figures from Norse mythology. On the Right,...
This scene, painted by the 16th-century Italian artist Frederico Barocci, depicts the famous escape of Aeneas from Ilium at the end of the legendary...
Around 585, Bishop Gregory Of Tours (c. 539-594) traveled through a community called Carignan, located where the Chiers and the Meuse Rivers meet. A...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1342-1400)
"He who accepts his poverty unhurt
I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt,
But truly poor are they who whine and...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1342-1400)
"Never let innocence besot your head,
But take the helm yourselves and trim the sail."
The Canterbury Tales (Envoy to the Clerk's Tale) by...
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE) was an Athenian general and historian who lived through the Peloponnesian War (c. 431-404 BCE) between Athens and Sparta. He...
Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
"Most people seem to want to be loved rather than to love, the reason being their desire for honour."
From The Nicomachean Ethics...
Hesiod (flourished c. 8th century BCE)
"If your spirit in your breast yearns for riches, do as follows, and work, work upon work."
From Hesiod’s Works and...
This painting, created in 1892 by the Austrian artist, Franz von Matsch (c. 1861-1942), depicts an ignoble scene of Achilles from the legendary Trojan...
Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
"He who thinks of his own pleasures and shrinks from fighting is very likely, because of his irresolution, to lose those...
In the scene displayed above, the British illustrator William Greatbach (c. 1802-1885) brought to life a pre-battle speech said to have occurred in the...
This scene, painted by the 16th-century Italian artist Frederico Barocci, depicts the famous escape of Aeneas from Ilium at the end of the legendary...
According to ancient scholars such as Quintus Ennius (c. 239-169 BCE), Lucius Cincius Alimentus (flourished c. 200 BCE) and Livy (59 BCE-17 CE), their...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1314-1400)
"Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
Fortune has given us this adversity,
Some wicked planetary dispensation,
Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
Has...
This scene, painted by the 16th-century Italian artist Frederico Barocci, depicts the famous escape of Aeneas from Ilium at the end of the legendary...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"Of gold and silver ye have made your god,
Differing wherein from the idolater,
But that he worships one, a hundred ye?"
Dante Alighieri’s Divine...
Around 585, Bishop Gregory Of Tours (c. 539-594) traveled through a community called Carignan, located where the Chiers and the Meuse Rivers meet. A...
The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"An uninstructed person
ages like an ox:
his bulk increases,
his insight does not."
The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 11), recorded in...
According to ancient scholars such as Quintus Ennius (c. 239-169 BCE), Lucius Cincius Alimentus (flourished c. 200 BCE) and Livy (59 BCE-17 CE), their...
This painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) depicts Bishop Praetextatus of Rouen (r. 544-586) on his deathbed after the clergyman was attacked by an assailant...
Hesiod (flourished c. 8th century BCE)
"If your spirit in your breast yearns for riches, do as follows, and work, work upon work."
From Hesiod’s Works and...
Halfdan Egedius (c. 1877-1899), a Norwegian artist, illustrated this scene for an 1899 edition of the Heimskringla, an ambitious text by the medieval historian...
Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)
"Since Fortune's got the upper hand,
let's follow her where she calls and change course."
From The Aeneid (Book V) by Virgil, translated...
