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Often the hearts of men and women are stirred, as likewise they are soothed in their sorrows, more by example than by words.

— Peter Abelard Historia Calamitatum (1132)

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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

The Abelardian Doctrine Of The Atonement (1892)

The fathers did not themselves believe that they, or their companions, were always right. Augustine found himself mistaken in some cases and did not hesitate to retract his errors.

Sic et Non (1120)

The master key of knowledge is, indeed, a persistent and frequent questioning.

Sic et Non (1120)

When love has once been sincere, how difficult it is to determine to love no more? 'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love.

By doubting we come to examine, and by examining we reach the truth.

Sic et Non (1120)

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