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- Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), Adversus Valentinianos
- An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- The scars of others should teach us caution.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
- Saint Bernard (1090 - 1153), Epistle
- Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
- Heloise (1098 - 1164), Letter
- All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- He listens well who takes notes.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
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