“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

In Conversione S. Pauli, Sermon 1, sect. 3; translation by James Spedding, in The Works of Francis Bacon (1860) vol. 12, p. 134
Ut populus, sic sacerdos is a quotation from Isaiah 24:2.

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French abbot, theologian 1090–1153

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