If I am deceived in this, so that this be not the truth, then no man shall be criticized by me [on my account] if for the sake of truth he contradicts me; rather, I recognize his knowledge as greater if he can win out over me with reason, for I by no means know all the wisdom of Solomon.
Si eu en soy desmentitz
C'aysso no sia veritatz
No n'er om per mi blasmatz
Si per ver m'o contreditz;
Ans vey sos sabers plus grans
Si·m pot venser d'ayso segons rayso
Qu'eu non say ges tot lo sen Salamo.
C'aysso no sia veritatz
No n'er om per mi blasmatz
Si per ver m'o contreditz;
Ans vey sos sabers plus grans
Si·m pot venser d'ayso segons rayso
Qu'eu non say ges tot lo sen Salamo.
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Quoted by Jaufre de Foixa, Regles de trobar, ll. 19–25. Edited by John H. Marshall, The 'Razos de Trobar' of Raimon Vidal (London: Oxford University Press, 1972) p. 56. Translated by Amelia E. Van Vleck, Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) pp. 29–30