Giraldus Cambrensis
Giraldus Cambrensis
Gerald of Waleswas a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon and historian...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionClergyman
addicted bent defence employed expense food gluttony horses means minds people wholly whose
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
affairs best born connected consider errors esteemed happiness human man perfect whose worldly
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.