Valerian Quotes

Valerian (circa 450)

Valerian (circa 450) was a classically educated Gallo-Roman aristocrat. The years of his birth and death are unknown, but he is believed to have been in attendance at the councils of Riez (439), Vaison (442), and Arles (455). In 460 Pope Leo named him bishop of the unified diocese of Cimiez and Nice. There are 20 sermons attributed to him, along with some of the writings in the biblical Book of Proverbs.

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One who rejects instruction is the foe of his own soul.

Valerian – Proverbs 15:32 (circa 450)

There is apart from mere intellect, in the make-up of every superior human identity, a wondrous something that realizes without argument, frequently without what is called education (though I think it the goal and apex of all education deserving the name), an intuition of the absolute balance, in time and space, of the whole of this multifariousness, this revel of fools, and incredible make-believe and general unsettledness, we call the world.

A soul-sight of that divine clue and unseen thread which holds the whole congeries of things, all history and time, and all events, however trivial, however momentous, like a leashed dog in the hand of the hunter. Of such soul-sight and root-centre for the mind mere optimism explains only the surface.

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)

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