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* 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)== | ||