8 Quotes by Richard de Bury
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Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.
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A dire il vero, quei laici che guardano un libro piegandolo a rovescio, come se fosse quello il suo verso normale, sono indegni di avere contatti con libri di qualsiasi genere.
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Come insegna Seneca ammaestrando i suoi discepoli, l'ozio senza le lettere è la morte e la tomba dell'uomo mentre ancora vive; così, per la ragione opposta, ne deduciamo che la frequentazione delle lettere e dei libri è per l'uomo la vita.
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Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.
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A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
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All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
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Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
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