Jean de Meun > Quotes

“Though Hope be courteous and debonair, She's never certain.”
― Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose

“Will they not for their part have monkeys and marmosets to make them fine coats and doublets of leather and iron? Hands would not be a problem, for the monkeys could work with their hands, and so they would in no way be inferior to man; they could even be writers. They would never be so feeble as not to put their heads together to find ways of resisting these arms, and they would construct machines of their own with which they would inflict great harm on men.”
― Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose