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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

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

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Ut populus, sic sacerdos is a quotation from Isaiah 24:2.

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