Quotation by Peire Cardenal

If some beggar steals a bridle
he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.
There's no surer justice in the world than that
which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.
Peire Cardenal (c. 1180–1272), French troubadour poet. "Las amairitz, qui encolpar las vol," Songs of the Troubadours, ed. and trans. by Anthony Bonner (1972).
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