„Das Leben so kurz, das Handwerk so lang zu lernen.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parliament of Fowls, 1382
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geburtstag: 1343
Todesdatum: 25. Oktober 1400
Andere Namen:Джеффри Чосер
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Geoffrey Chaucer war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Dichter, der als Verfasser der Canterbury Tales berühmt geworden ist. In einer Zeit, in der die englische Dichtung noch vorwiegend auf Latein, Französisch oder Anglonormannisch geschrieben wurde, gebrauchte Chaucer die Volkssprache und erhob dadurch das Mittelenglische zur Literatursprache. Sein Familienname leitet sich vom franz. chausseur, „Schuhmacher“, ab.
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„Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
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„people can die of mere imagination“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
„Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
Book 2, line 22-28
„Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessity,“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: p>What maketh this, but Juppiter the kyng,
That is prince and cause of alle thyng
Convertynge al unto his propre welle
From which it is deryved, sooth to telle,
And heer-agayns no creature on lyve
Of no degree availleth for to strive.Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessity,
And take it weel, that we may nat eschue;
And namely, that to us alle is due.</p
The Knight's Tale, lV 2177 - 2186
„Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: But yet that holden this tale a folly,
As of a fox, or of a cock and hen,
Taketh the morality, good men.
For Saint Paul saith that all that written is,
To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis;
Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.
The Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 672-677
„And of your herte up-casteth the visage
To thilke God that after his image
Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire
This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: O yonge fresshe folkes, he or she,
In which that love up-groweth with your age,
Repeyreth hoom fro worldly vanitee,
And of your herte up-casteth the visage
To thilke God that after his image
Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire
This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.
Book 5, line 1835-1841
„Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother,
Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
The Knight's Tale, l. 1181-1182
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„This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro;
Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
The Knight's Tale, lV, 1990 - 1992
„Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
Book 2, line 22-28
„What is this world? what asketh men to have?“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Context: What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.
The Knight's Tale, IV, 1919 - 1921
„The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.
Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge,
The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne;
Al this mene I be love.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
Parlement of Foules, l. 1-4; comparable with Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1:1
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„If gold rusts, what then can iron do?“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
„the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complete Poetry and Prose
