John of Salisbury Quotes

• Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea
• Est ergo tyranni et principis h?c differentia sola, quod hic legi obtemperat, et ejus arbitrio populum regit, cujus se credit ministrum.
• Exquisita lectio singulorum, doctissimum; cauta electio meliorum, optimum facit.
• Et pro virtutum habitu quilibet et liber est, et, quatenus est liber, eatenus virtutibus pollet.
• Lex donum Dei est, ?quitatis forma, norma justiti?, divin? voluntatis imago, salutis custodia, unio et consolidatio populorum, regula officiorum, exclusio et exterminatio vitiorum, violenti? et totius injuri? p?na.
• He would be a scholar in any age, and was head and shoulders above his own.
• He learnt to write what is regarded by competent critics as the purest Latin of the middle ages:The breadth of his reading in the Latin classics is astonishing.

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