Saturday 12 March 2022

Richard de Bury

 Richard de Bury


“In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I

 foresee

 things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from

 books come forth the laws of peace.



All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not

 to

 devour the children that he generates; all the glory of the

 world

 would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals

 with the remedy of books.”



― Richard de Bury Philobiblon 1339


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