latter quotes

  • Non enim quo quisque ditior sive potentior, ideo et melior: fortunae illud est, hoc virtutis. To be wealthieror more powerful isnot necessarily tobe worthier: the former are products of fortune, the latter stems from virtue.

    -He  lo|«  se
    c.1135  First letter to Peter  Abelard.

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