Jacques de Molay Quotes
Jacques de Molay presents fierce, vengeful pleas against oppression and false judgment.
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Quar nous navons volu ne volons le Temple mettre en aucune servitute se non tant come il hy affiert.
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Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us.
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It is just that, in so terrible a day, and in the last moments of my life, I should discover all the iniquity of falsehood, and make the truth triumph. I declare, then, in the face of heaven and earth, and acknowledge, though to my eternal shame, that I have committed the greatest crimes but it has been the acknowledging of those which have been so foully charged on the order. I attest - and truth obliges me to attest - that it is innocent! I made the contrary declaration only to suspend the excessive pains of torture, and to mollify those who made me endure them. I know the punishments which have been inflicted on all the knights who had the courage to revoke a similar confession; but the dreadful spectacle which is presented to me is not able to make me confirm one lie by another. The life offered me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret.
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For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.
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Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge our death.