Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Walter Map

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Walter Map was a medieval writer. He wrote De nugis curialium, which takes the form of a series of anecdotes of people and places, offering insights on the history of his time.

Writer | 1140 - 1210

Source: Wikipedia

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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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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