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Historical Quotes

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Henry II 1133 - 1189

Speaking of Thomas Becket:

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

(Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on December 1170.)

The Venerable Bede 673 - 735

"O King, seems to me the present life of men on earth, in comparison with that time which to us is uncertain, as if when on a winter's night you sit feasting with your ealdormen and thegns, - a single sparrow should fly swiftly into the hall, and coming in at one door, instantly fly out through another."

Slight correction for spelling: "... a retreat for the deepest core of your *beging*." (Farid ud-Din-Attar)

"Thus, the wise prince will range matters so that his subjects, in every conceivable matter and state of affairs, shall always have need of his governance, and so, they shall always be faithful to him."

~ "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli.

"The Wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell."
~ "Confessions", Saint Augustine.

"Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching."
~ Attributed to be from an Assyrian clay tablet created circa 2800 BC, housed in a Museum in Istanbul: by Georg S. Goddard, writing in 1922, in his office as Connecticut State Librarian. (The tablet in question can no-longer be located in the modern day to verify or disprove these statements about the translation and era of the text.)

“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”

~ Book III of Odes, Horace, circa 20 BC