Refert historia saecularis, dilectissimi, quendam philosophorum discipulis advenientibus prius tacendi patientiam quam loquendi monstrasse doctrinam et sic incipientes quosque inter disputantium consectaneorum cathedras mutum sustinuisse quinquennium, ut etiam celeriora quorumpiam ingenia non liceret ante laudari quam deceret agnosci.
Dearly beloved, secular history relates of one of the philosophers that when pupils came to him he taught them the lesson of patient silence before he taught them the lore of speaking, and that all the novices endured five years of dumbness among the chairs where their fellow-disciples sat at their discussions, so that even the quicker minds were not allowed to gain a word of praise before it was proper for them to be recognised.
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