One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the tr… - Bernard of Clairvaux

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One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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About Bernard of Clairvaux

St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – August 21 1153), abbot of Clairvaux, was a highly influential French churchman, theologian and mystic. He was one of the founders of the Cistercian, or Bernardine, monastic order.

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Alternative Names: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux • Saint Bernard • St. Bernard of Clairvaux • St. Bernard • Bernhard • Bernardus Claraevallensis • Bernardus Claravallensis • Bernard de Clairvaux

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Experto crede: aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

Non est jam dicere, "Ut populus, sic sacerdos"; quia nec si populus, ut sacerdos.

One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest. - Bernard of Clairvaux

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