"Try to acquire the virtues you believe..." - Quote by Saint Augustine
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
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“In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.”
“Your wisdom should be without pride.”
“Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.”
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