Denis de Laplante
Show courage and bravery in battle, fight with proper and effective blows, such as you have already learned, as if in the best if humour, though filled with noble wrath. Never fight with feigned strokes, needless thrusts, or uncertain shots like a frightened man. Heed these things well that you may be able to match your opponents skill in fighting. Be resolute in combat but not hot-headed and least of all boastful. Always remember that there may be those who can give good testimony on your behalf; but never praise your own deeds, lest after a time it should come to pass that you are pursued for the slaughter of men whose death is rated a great loss and revenge is directed to you by your own words.
If you are fighting on foot in a land battle and are placed at the point of a wedge shaped column it is important to watch the closed shield line in the first onset, lest it become broken or disarranged. Take heed to never bind the front edge of your shield under that of another. You must also be specially careful when in battle line, never to throw your spear, unless you have to two, for in battle array on land one spear is more effective than two swords. But if the fight is on shipboard, select two spears which are not to be thrown, one with a shaft long enough to reach easily from ship to ship and one with a shorter shaft which you will find particularily serviceable when you try to board the enemys ship.
KONUNGS SKUGGSJA
Author Unknown - 1243 AD approx.
Hope goes hand in hand with deeds;
otherwise, it is just wishful thinking.
Ibn'Ata'Illah in the Kitab al-Hikam
Our longing for an increase of knowledge urges us ever onward toward some final goal, in which we imagine that we shall find full rest and satisfaction, like the ant, which is not endowed with wings till the last days of his life.
Frater Albertus
"Value for Value", building "on the square and on the level". The Hippocratic Oath. Don't let the team down. Honest work for honest pay, Such things did not have to be proved, they were an essential part of life - true throughout eternity, true in the farthest reaches of the Galaxy.
Robert Heinlein in Double Star
Presently he said in a mild voice, "Thy wits seem touched, poor stranger; doubtless thou hast suffered privations and rude buffetings at the worlds hands; thy looks and dress betoken it. Who dost thou take me to be.
Mark Twain in The Prince and the Pauper |
