John of Salisbury Quotes
- Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea - View Quote Details on Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantium humeris insidentes,…
- Exquisita lectio singulorum, doctissimum; cauta electio meliorum, optimum facit. - View Quote Details on Exquisita lectio singulorum, doctissimum; cauta electio meliorum, optimum facit.
- He learnt to write what is regarded by competent critics as the purest Latin of the middle ages…The breadth of his reading in the Latin classics is astonishing. - View Quote Details on He learnt to write what is regarded by competent critics…
- Et pro virtutum habitu quilibet et liber est, et, quatenus est liber, eatenus virtutibus pollet. - View Quote Details on Et pro virtutum habitu quilibet et liber est, et, quatenus…
- Lex donum Dei est, æquitatis forma, norma justitiæ, divinæ voluntatis imago, salutis custodia, unio et consolidatio populorum, regula officiorum, exclusio et exterminatio vitiorum, violentiæ et totius injuriæ pœna. - View Quote Details on Lex donum Dei est, æquitatis forma, norma justitiæ, divinæ voluntatis…
- He would be a scholar in any age, and was head and shoulders above his own. - View Quote Details on He would be a scholar in any age, and was…
- Est ergo tyranni et principis hæc differentia sola, quod hic legi obtemperat, et ejus arbitrio populum regit, cujus se credit ministrum. - View Quote Details on Est ergo tyranni et principis hæc differentia sola, quod hic…
About John of Salisbury
John of Salisbury or Joannes Saresberiensis (c. 1118 – 1180-10-25 ) was an English philosopher who wrote on ethics, logic and political theory. He was a student of Peter Abelard and an associate of Thomas Becket. .
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