Top 9 Walter Map Quotes

Welsh medieval writer

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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Alternative Names: Walter Mapes • Walter de Mapes • Gautier Map

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

My only offence is, that I am alive.

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo.

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans.

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

Vadis quo uis, morieris ubi debes.

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.

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

Meum est propositum in taberna mori: Vinum sit appositum morientis ori, Ut dicant cum venerint angelorum chori, Deus sit propitius huic potatori! Poculis accenditur animi lucerna; Cor imbutum nectare volat ad superna: Mihi sapit dulcius vinum in taberna, Quam quod aqua miscuit præsulis pincerna.

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