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* Only the educated are free. (Discourses, Book II, ch. 1)
 
* Only the educated are free. (Discourses, Book II, ch. 1)
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==Charlemagne (January 29 745 – January 28, 814)==
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* Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
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**Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
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**"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
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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)==
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