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They are spendthrifts in promises, niggards in the performance; the most crawling sycophants, and the most venomous slanderers; who feign the most honest simplicity, and are the most malicious of deceivers." Niccolini, Vita di Arnaldo da Brescia. De Consideratione, lib. iv. cap. 2.
Lucullus, 6 with 13. Lucullus, 13, 21, 40. Empir. Pyrrh. Hypot. 1, 11. Cicero terms these three impressions, "visio probabilis; quæ ex circumspectione aliquâ et accuratâ consideratione fiat; quæ non impediatur." Lucullus, 11. Pyrrh. Hypot. i. 33. Numen. apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. xiv. 7. Lucullus, 31, 34; de Off. ii. 2; de Fin. v. 26. Quinct. xii. 1. Lucullus, 22, et alibi; Tusc. Quæst. ii. 2.
It was for Eugenius III. that his old preceptor, St. Bernard, composed at his disciple's request, his famous book "de Consideratione;" in which the subject handled is, on the duties of a pope; and in which is given such a graphic description of the degenerate character of the Romans, as also of the Roman clergy in that age.
It was during this dark time that he began his largest literary work, the five books "De Consideratione," addressed to his disciple, Eugenius III., a powerful and elaborate plea against the excessive centralization of all administration and decisions into the hands of the Papal Court. Bernard called this period "the season of calamities."
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