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Karol Wielki: 11 cytatów1 Polubienie

Karol Wielki słynne cytaty

„Czyn prawy lepszy jest niż wiedza, ale żeby czynić to co słuszne, musimy wiedzieć co słuszne jest.”

Źródło: De Litteris Colendis; cyt. za: Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau, De la philosophie scolastique

„W przeciągu roku wszystkie dzieci mają być ochrzczone, i to ustanawiamy, że jeśli ktoś bez porozumienia z duchownym lub zgody duchownego w ciągu roku zaniedba oddanie dziecka do chrztu, to jeżeli będzie człowiekiem ze szlachetnego rodu, zapłaci skarbowi 120 solidów, jeżeli będzie zwykłym wolnym – 60, jeżeli litem – 30.”

Karol Wielki

Źródło: Kapitularz saski (785), cyt. za: Karol Modzelewski, Barbarzyńska Europa, wyd. Iskry, Warszawa 2004, s. 232.

„O wy szlachto, synowie najprzedniejszych z mych ludzi, miękcy i wymuskani, mający zaufanie w swe urodzenie i bogactwa. Nie zważacie na moje rozkazy, a swoje postępy. Zaniedbaliście dążenie do uczenia się, a jedyne co was interesuje to prześciganie się w gnuśności i ciemnocie. Na Króla, który jest w Niebiosach, klnę się, że za nic mam waszą szlachetność i piękno. Niech inni was podziwiają, a ja podaję to do waszej przytomności z całą pewnością, że albo gnuśność swą zastąpicie czynami sławetnymi, albo nie dostaniecie nic od Króla Karola.”

Karol Wielki

Źródło: Notker Balbus, Gesta Caroli Magni

Karol Wielki: Cytaty po angielsku

“It is not lack of self-restraint but care for others which makes me dine in Lent before the hour of evening.”

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Charlemagne

Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

“Take care that none of them escapes.”

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Charlemagne

Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz). Referring to conspirators against Pope Leo III.

“Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.”

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Charlemagne

"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.

“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 sceptre, which I carry to signify my royal will, in order that he might use it as his pastoral staff.”

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Charlemagne

Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

“You nobles, you sons of my leading men, soft and dandified, trusting in your birth and your wealth, paying no attention to my command and your advancement, you neglected the pursuit of learning and indulged yourselves in the sport of pleasure and idleness and foolish pastimes. By the King of the heavens I think nothing of your nobility and your beauty. Others can admire you. Know this without any doubt; unless you rapidly make up for your idleness by eager effort, you will never receive any benefit from Charlemagne.”

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Charlemagne

Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

“Nothing of that which was gained by fraud can go to the liberation of his soul. Let his wealth be divided among the workmen of this our building, and the poorer servants of our palace.”

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Charlemagne

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.”

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Charlemagne

Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

“If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!”

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Charlemagne

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!)".