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Otto of Freising
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“For being transferred from the City to the Greeks, from the Greeks to the Franks, from the Franks to the Lombards, from the Lombards again to the German Franks, that empire not only became decrepit and senile through lapse of time, but also, like a once smooth pebble that has been rolled this way and that by the waters, contracted many a stain and developed many a defect.”
Otto of Freising (1111–1158) said by 1158 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thought it necessary, my dear brother Isingrim, to compose a history whereby, through God's favour, I might display the miseries of the citizens of Babylon and also the glory of the kingdom of Christ to which the citizens of Jerusalem are to look forward with hope, and of which they are to have a foretaste even in this life. I have undertaken therefore to bring down as far as our own time...the record of the conflict and miseries of the one city, Babylon; and furthermore, not to be silent concerning our hopes regarding that other city...but to make mention also of its citizens who are now sojourning in the worldly city.”
Otto of Freising (1111–1158) said by 1158 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source