Alcuin Quotes

• Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

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  Voice, People, Vox Populi

  800 Letter to Charlemagne.

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• Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

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  Voice, People, Vox Populi

  Letter 164 in 'Works' (1863) vol. 1, p. 438

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• Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

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  Moving, Men, People

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• Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

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  Meaningful, Fun, Drinking

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• Man thinks, God directs.
  [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]

  Alcuin

  God, Men, Thinking

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• What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

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  Sweet, Bitter, Hunger

  "The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World". Book by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger (p. 57), 1999.

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• Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

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  Art, Fate, Dust

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• If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

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  Land, People, Athens

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• Man thinks, God directs.

  Alcuin

  God, Men, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". 1922.

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• What has Ingeld to do with Christ?

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  Christ

  Alcuin, Stephen Allott (1974). “Alcuin of York, c. A.D. 732 to 804: his life and letters”, William Sessions Limited

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• At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

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  Wise, Men, Stupid People

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