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Walter Map Quotes

b. 1130 England

Walter Map (Latin: Gualterius Mappus; 1130 – c. 1209/1210) was a medieval writer. He wrote De nugis curialium, which takes the form of a series of anecdotes of people and places, offering insights into the history of his time.

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You may go where you list, but you'll die when you must.

Hard is the hand of the surgeon, but healing.

The hatred which is the degenerate product of love is the stubbornest.

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer.

My only offence is, that I am alive.

Meum est propositum in taberna mori.
I propose to end my days — in a tavern drinking.

The Cistercians...are wholly strange to the use of flesh. Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon—though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Map (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.