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Charlemagne Quotes

740–810 France

Charlemagne (2 April 742/747/748 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy Roman Emperor from 800. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of western and central Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier.

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Also known as: Charles the Great

Random Charlemagne quote

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

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

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

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.

Take care that none of them escapes.

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.

Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky.

Misattributed

Make us eternal truths receive,
And practice all that we believe;
Give us Thyself that we may see
The Father and the Son by Thee.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charlemagne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.