Jed

“What governance is in this prescience
That giltelees tormenteth innocence?
And yet encresseth this al my penaunce,
That man is bounden to his observaunce,
For Goddes sake, to letten of his wille,
Ther as a beest may al his lust fulfille.
And whan a beest is deed, he hath no peyne,
But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne,
Though in this world he have care and wo.
Withouten doute it may stonden so.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“The whole world knows that when England takes a pinch of snuff France sneezes.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman

“In Europe people evidently know what Socrates thought he did not know, and what the famous serpent of old once promised to teach - they 'know' today what is good and evil.”
― NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm,

“He saw... one of those,
Who, when this planet's sphering time doth close,
Will be its high remembrancers. Who they?
The mighty ones who have made eternal day for Greece and England.”
― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance