Walter Map Quotes

Walter Map (Latin: Gualterius Mappus; 1140 – c. 1210) was a medieval writer of works written in Latin. Only one work is attributed to Map with any certainty: De Nugis Curialium.

The Cistercians do not eat meat... 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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- God
- Feet
- Meat
The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

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- Love
- Hate
- For Him

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

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- Me
- Die
- Drinking
Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

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- Boy
- Rose
- Afterwards
Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

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- Hand
- Healing
- Surgeon
Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

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- Fault
- I Am Alive