Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313-1375)
"Do as you would be done by, that's my motto."
The Decameron (Second Day, Ninth Story) by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by G. H....
Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430)
"Anyone who wanted could cite plentiful examples of exceptional women in the world today: it's simply a matter of looking...
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Owing to the helplessness and subservience of democracy in the hands of ambitious and commanding men, added to the facilities of...
The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)
"Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape wood.
The virtuous tame themselves."
The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 10), recorded in...
Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313-1375)
"Do as you would be done by, that's my motto."
The Decameron (Second Day, Ninth Story) by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by G. H....
In the year 460 BCE, a man named Appius Herdonius reportedly led a campaign against Rome and successfully seized the Capitoline Hill. Although no known...
In 583, there were three Merovingian kings of the Frankish Empire. Brothers Chilperic and Guntram, as well as their nephew Childebert II, divided the...
In the year 530, Emperor Justinian’s newly appointed General of the East, Belisarius, led a Byzantine (Eastern Roman) army to a position between the...
Thorstein Eiriksson was reportedly the only child of Eirik the Red to never reach North America. Thorstein’s brother, Leif Eiriksson, was the first known...
According to Norwegian-Icelandic tradition, a nobleman named Hjor ruled a domain between Hordaland and Rogaland in Norway around the early 9th century. Hjor often...
Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)
"Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty."
From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin...
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Anna Komnene was born to Emperor Alexios and Empress Eirene in 1083, just two years after Alexios wrested...
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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....
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Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 to David and Elizabeth Poe, two actors who lived in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Unfortunately,...
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Over the course of his life, Benjamin Franklin (1706- 1790) underwent a tremendous transformation, from a poorly educated boy who ran away from...
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
"The wish for friendship develops rapidly, but friendship does not."
From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156b) by Aristotle, translated by...
Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
"Utility is an impermanent thing: it changes according to circumstances."
From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156a) by Aristotle, translated...
In the year 460 BCE, a man named Appius Herdonius reportedly led a campaign against Rome and successfully seized the Capitoline Hill. Although no known...
According to the historian Procopius (c. 490-565), an interesting figure named Jacobus flourished in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. This Jacobus, it...
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Owing to the helplessness and subservience of democracy in the hands of ambitious and commanding men, added to the facilities of...
In the year 460 BCE, a man named Appius Herdonius reportedly led a campaign against Rome and successfully seized the Capitoline Hill. Although no known...
The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)
"Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape wood.
The virtuous tame themselves."
The Dhammapada (Verses on the Way, Chapter 10), recorded in...
Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313-1375)
"Do as you would be done by, that's my motto."
The Decameron (Second Day, Ninth Story) by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by G. H....
To the delight of Hernan Cortes and his Spanish conquistadors, Montezuma II of the Aztec Empire was an extremely generous gift-giver. He handed over...
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Owing to the helplessness and subservience of democracy in the hands of ambitious and commanding men, added to the facilities of...
Benjamin Franklin (c. 1706-1790)
"Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty."
From Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin...
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1342-1400)
"God has some secrets that we shouldn't know.
How blessed are the simple, aya, indeed,
That only know enough to say their creed!"
The...
Xenophon (c. 420-350 BCE)
"Let us be the ones who first arouse others to demonstrate their valour. Prove yourselves the best possible officers! Prove yourselves...
