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Isidore of Seville
8 quotes
“Law will be honorable, just, possible, according to nature, according to the custom of the country, adapted to the place and time, necessary, useful, clear also, lest it contain anything in its obscurity that tends to fraud, drawn up for no one’s private advantage, but for the common good of all citizens.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 5, ch. 21 (Brehaut 1912 p.171)
“[The abbot] will exhibit himself as one to be imitated in all examples of works; nor shall anyone be allowed to command anything that he has not done himself.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through idleness, lusts and harmful thoughts grow, but through the exercise of labor, vices are likewise diminished.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If [the monks] wish to devote themselves to reading so that they do not work, they are contumacious to reading itself, because they do not do what they read there.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Monks who are working should meditate or sing so that they may be consoled in their labor by the delight of the words and songs of God. For if secular workers do not cease to sing lewd songs among their labors, and thus entangle their mouths in songs and fables, so that they do not withdraw their hands from work, how much more should the servants of Christ, who must work with their hands in such a way that they always have the praise of God in their mouths, and serve with their tongues in psalms and hymns!”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A detected vice is quickly cured, but the hidden vice, the more it is concealed, the more deeply it creeps, for truly he who neglects to make it known does not wish to be cured at all.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Offenses are either grave or light. A person guilty of a lighter offense is one who has chosen to be idle; who has come late to duty, to a meeting, or to the table; who has laughed in the choir or engaged in idle tales... who has used a book carelessly... Therefore, these and similar offenses must be corrected with a three-day excommunication.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For brothers who pass from this life, before they are buried, a sacrifice should be offered to the Lord for the remission of their sins.”
Isidore of Seville (560–636) said by 636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source