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Charlemagne

Not who you're looking for? Others named Charlemagne: king of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (74 · US musical ensemble · 1933 film by Pierre Colombier · 2015 song performed by Blossoms

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“Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.”
— "De Litteris Colendis", in Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau De la philosophie scolastique (1850) p. 10; translation from T. H. Huxley Science and Education ([1893] 2007) p. 132; in Latin, Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
“If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!”
— Notker the Stammerer De Carolo Magno, Bk. 1, sect. 9; translation from Einhard and Notker the Stammerer (trans. Lewis Thorpe) Two Lives of Charlemagne (1969) p. 102.; O utinam haberem duodecim clericos ita doctos, omnique sapientia sic perfecte instructos, ut fuerunt Hieronimus et Augustinus. In conversation with his minister Alcuin, who replied, "Creator coeli et terrae similes illis plures non habuit, et tu vis habere duodecim (The Maker of heaven and earth Himself has very few scholars worth comparing with these men, and yet you expect to find a dozen!)".
“It is not lack of self-restraint but care for others which makes me dine in Lent before the hour of evening.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Bishops should despise this world and inspire others by their example to seek after heavenly things. But now you are corrupted by ambition beyond all the rest of mankind; and one of them not content with holding the first episcopal see in Germany has dared without my approval to claim my golden scepter, which I carry to signify my royal will, in order that he might use it as his pastoral staff.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Charlemagne: king of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (74 · US musical ensemble · 1933 film by Pierre Colombier · 2015 song performed by Blossoms

Notable quotes

“Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.”
— "De Litteris Colendis", in Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau De la philosophie scolastique (1850) p. 10; translation from T. H. Huxley Science and Education ([1893] 2007) p. 132; in Latin, Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
“If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!”
— Notker the Stammerer De Carolo Magno, Bk. 1, sect. 9; translation from Einhard and Notker the Stammerer (trans. Lewis Thorpe) Two Lives of Charlemagne (1969) p. 102.; O utinam haberem duodecim clericos ita doctos, omnique sapientia sic perfecte instructos, ut fuerunt Hieronimus et Augustinus. In conversation with his minister Alcuin, who replied, "Creator coeli et terrae similes illis plures non habuit, et tu vis habere duodecim (The Maker of heaven and earth Himself has very few scholars worth comparing with these men, and yet you expect to find a dozen!)".
“It is not lack of self-restraint but care for others which makes me dine in Lent before the hour of evening.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Bishops should despise this world and inspire others by their example to seek after heavenly things. But now you are corrupted by ambition beyond all the rest of mankind; and one of them not content with holding the first episcopal see in Germany has dared without my approval to claim my golden scepter, which I carry to signify my royal will, in order that he might use it as his pastoral staff.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.