There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.