Boccaccio’s Decameron
However, as I am sure you will know, every man and woman should be equal before the law, and laws must have the consent of those who are affected by them. –Boccaccio
Lorenzetti’s The Allegory of Good Government
Everyone shall
go forth freely
without fear.
–Lorenzetti
Princess Lechang
A broken mirror joined together again
Du Fu
Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.
Du Fu
Queen Elizabeth I Speeches
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Queen Elizabeth I
Makeda: Queen of Sheba
The Queen of Sheba – an exotic and mysterious woman of power – is immortalized in the world’s great religious works.
Hatshepsut
Now my heart turns this way and that, as I think what the people will say—those who shall see my monuments in years to come, and who shall speak of what I have done.
Christine de Pisan
Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance… -C. de Pisan
Mirabai
What is beyond the mind,
has no boundary, In it our senses end.
Mirabai
Petrarch
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
