"No one, it seems to me, can hope to equal Augustine. Who, nowadays, could hope to equal one who, in my judgment, was the greatest in an age fertile in great minds?"
— Augustine of Hippo

January 1, 1970

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Petrarch, in a letter to Giovanni Boccaccio (28 April 1373), as quoted in Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898) edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 418