Word and deed

The same monk said, “Experience is good. By experience men are tested.” He also said, “If a man preaches but does not practise what he preaches, he is like a well of water where everyone can quench their thirst and wash off their dirt, but which cannot clean away the filth and dung around it”

– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V