Medieval Philosophy Quotes

“For we are wont to use the word evil in two senses: the evil a man has done, and the evil a man has suffered.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“Besides, life was not precious, for what was the body after all, but carrion, and the sojourn on earth but a halt on the way to eternal life?”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century