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Pierre de Blois est un diplomate et poète latin du Moyen Âge.

Il étudie le droit et la théologie à l'école cathédrale de Paris et fut disciple de Jean de Salisbury. C'est probablement pendant ses années d'études qu'il compose un certain nombre de textes en latin, dont certains ont été préservés dans la collection de Carmina Burana.

Pierre devient le tuteur du roi Guillaume II de Sicile en 1167. Autour de 1173, il s'établit en Angleterre, où il sert Henri II et Thomas Becket comme secrétaire. Il rentre ensuite au service d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine, veuve d'Henri II. Wikipedia  

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Pierre de Blois: Citations en anglais

“He who cuts off his nose takes poor revenge for a shame inflicted on him.”
Male ulciscitur dedecus sibi illatum, qui amputat nasum suum.

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Peter of Blois

De Hierosolymitana peregrinatione acceleranda (1189), cited from Mary Beth Rose (ed.) Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986) p. 29; translation from John Simpson The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) p. 55.
A similar proverb, Qui son nez cope deshonore son vis, appears in the late 12th century chanson de geste Garin le Loheren, line 2877.

“It's good fishing in troubled waters.”
Aqua turbida piscosior est.

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Peter of Blois

Letter 50, to Henry, Bishop of Bayeux, 1170, in J. A. Giles (ed.) Petri blesensis bathoniensis archidiaconi opera omnia (Oxonii: J. H. Parker, 1846-7) vol. 1, p. 155; translation from Provérbios Latinos. http://www.hkocher.info/minha_pagina/adagia/adagia_a.htm

“The role of officials today is to upset the laws, to stir up lawsuits, to annul agreements, to devise delays, to suppress the truth, to encourage falsehood, to follow profit, to sell justice, to attend closely to exacting money, to practise cunning.”
Officium officialium, quorum te numero aggregasti, hodie est, jura confundere, suscitare lites, transactiones rescindere, innectere dilationes, suprimere veritatem, fovere mendacium, quaestum sequi, aeqitatem vendere, inhiare exactionibus, versutias concinnare.

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Peter of Blois

Letter 25, to the Judicial Vicar of the Bishop of Chartres, in J. A. Giles (ed.) Petri blesensis bathoniensis archidiaconi opera omnia (Oxonii: J. H. Parker, 1846-7) vol. 1, p. 91; translation from Walter Bower and D. E. R. Watt (eds.) Scotichronicon (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987) vol. 7, p. 61.