Chivalric Wisdom for the 21st Century

Aphorisms and poems from the 5th - 15th centuries, which still offer us inspiration and guidance today. So it can also be the ritual that we cultivate and preserve in our order so that future generations can also live in a world that is shaped by the high ideals of a positively lived chivalry ...

One does not enter the Garden of Paradise with one's feet, but with one's heart.

(1091-1153), French Cistercian abbot and theologian​

The addiction for more is ruining humanity.


(570 – 632), Arabic: the praised, also Mahomed, actually Abul Kasim Muhammad Ibn Abdallah, Arabic founder of Islam​

Always be the same towards your friends, lucky or unlucky.


(† 583 BC), one of the Seven Wise Men​

Man should get used not to seek or take what is his in things, but to seek and take God in all things.

(1260-1327), German mystic and provincial of the Dominicans, died before the conclusion of his heresy proceedings​

The soul is the mistress, the flesh is the maid, because because the soul communicates life to its body, it has it under control, and the body gives itself over to the soul in receiving life.



(1098 – 1179), German mystic, abbess and scientist, Catholic saint

Whoever finds the courage to speak to God in himself to speak to his grace has already received it in its essential components, because God's injustice consists mainly in the “judgment of stubbornness”, which the wrongdoer is unbroken and defiant to the end lets stay.

(1265-1321), Italian poet and philosopher; is considered the most important poet of the European Middle Ages

Man should not be satisfied with an imagined God; for when the thought passes, God also passes. One should rather have an essential God who is far above the thoughts of men and all creatures.


German mystic and provincial of the Dominicans, died before the conclusion of his heresy proceedings​

Where you have no talent and merit, So keep your mouth off speaking.
The tongue reveals the shame of man, the lightness of the almond without a core.




(around 1210 – 1292), also Sadi, Moscharref od-Din ibn or Mosleh od-Din, Persian poet, turned to mysticism after studying in Baghdad, wrote two didactic-ethical masterpieces that reflect the social conditions of the time​

Anything can be achieved through steadfastness and firm determination.


1663 – 1736)

One should never take one's own good or the praises and scolding of the crowd as the guideline of one's life.

(1663 – 1736), Austrian military leader, considered the most capable general of his time, knew Leibniz, Voltaire, Montesquieu and other well-known contemporary personalities​

You must not tell anyone - not even the most familiar - about a secret that you want to keep hidden, because no one will keep the secret better than yourself.
Saadî (around 1210 - 1292)

(around 1210 – 1292)​