“Whenever they are reproached for such actions and for the many other disgraceful things they do, they think they can unload the heaviest charges by replying, ‘Do as we say and not as we do’ – as if constancy and steadfast behavior came more easily to the sheep than to their shepherds.”

“Whenever they are reproached for such actions and for the many other disgraceful things they do, they think they can unload the heaviest charges by replying, ‘Do as we say and not as we do’ – as if constancy and steadfast behavior came more easily to the sheep than to their shepherds.”

— Giovanni Boccaccio