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

 

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