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→Epictetus (AD 55–AD 135): Charlemagne
* Only the educated are free. (Discourses, Book II, ch. 1)
* Only the educated are free. (Discourses, Book II, ch. 1)
==Charlemagne (January 29 745 – January 28, 814)==
* Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
**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
Although indeed it would be better to do good than to know, first however comes knowing how to do it.—Mokurai's translation.
==Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)==
==Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)==