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“What good does it do one to pile up wealth if no good or honor issues from it? Assets are worth much less than manure: at least dung enriches the soil, but the wealth that is locked away is a disgrace to the man who hoards it.”

Wealth Honor Honour Manure Wealth Accumulation Generational Wealth

Book:Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“A good woman should neither take offense nor blame herself for someone else's faults, but simply strive all the harder to do what is right.”

Women Morality Women Empowerment Morals Double Standards Medieval Romance French Literature

Book:Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“He was so used to men's usage and had so rejected women's ways that little was lacking for him to be a man. Whatever one could see was certainly male! But there's more to this than meets the eye - the he's a she beneath the clothes.”

Masculinity Femininity Transgender Gender Roles Gender Identity Transmasc

Book:Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“Go to a chamber and learn to sew! That's what Nature's usage wants of you! You are not Silentius!" and he replied, "I never heard that before! Not Silentius? Who am I then? Silentius is my name, I think, or I am other than who I was. But this I know well, upon my oath, that I cannot be anybody else! Therefore, I am Silentius, as I see it, or I am no one.”

Transgender Gender Identity Medieval Romance French Literature Transmasc Transgender Man

Book:Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“I was trying to make life easy for myself, but I have a mouth too hard for kisses, and arms too rough for embraces. One could easily make a fool of me in any game played under the covers, for I'm a young man, not a girl.”

Sexuality Gender Roles Gender Identity Medieval Romance Transgender Issues Trans Man Trans Male Medieval French Literature

Book:Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance