Oh, if men would use as much diligence in rooting out vices and planting virtues as they do in proposing questions there would not be so great evils committed, nor scandals among the people, nor so much relaxation in monasteries.
Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done; nor how learnedly we have spoken, but how religiously we have lived. Tell me where are now all those great doctors with whom thou wast well acquainted while they were living and flourished in learning?
Now others fill their places, and I know not whether they ever think of them. In their lifetime they seemed to be something and now they are not spoken of.
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