Thursday, March 28, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Charlemagne

« All quotes from this author
 

O utinam haberem duodecim clericos ita doctos, omnique sapientia sic perfecte instructos, ut fuerunt Hieronimus et Augustinus.
--
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.
--
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!)".

 
Charlemagne

» Charlemagne - all quotes »



Tags: Charlemagne Quotes, Authors starting by C


Similar quotes

 

Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.

 
Publilius Syrus
 

Ich will lieber mit den meisten irren als auf meine Weise. So dachte Augustinus. Ich denke umgekehrt.

 
Karlheinz Deschner
 

Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.

 
Horace
 

Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!

 
Caligula
 

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

 
Henry Beard
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact