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Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

— Isidore of Seville

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Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

Homo is so named because he is made of humus (earth), as it is told in Genesis: “Et creavit Deus hominem de humo terrae.”

And without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.

For brothers who pass from this life, before they are buried, a sacrifice should be offered to the Lord for the remission of their sins.

Through idleness, lusts and harmful thoughts grow, but through the exercise of labor, vices are likewise diminished.

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