Even leading Roman doctors speak calmly at home and rashly in the heat of dispute
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Even those leaders and front-rank men of the Pontifical school must be told apart from themselves.They do not always seem consistent.They speak one way when they deal with their own and teach among them with a calm, composed mind.They speak another way when they fight with us and the heat of disputing and contradicting has caught fire.
In their contests with us, carried off by hatred of us and by the heat of debate, those very Antelignani — front-rank men — of the Roman school rashly blurt out many things that cut against not only us but themselves, and of which they are ashamed.Elsewhere in their writings those same points appear set out far more softly, and closer to the truth.
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VII. Rursus tamen illi Pontificiae Scholae duces ac primipili a seipsis distinguendi sunt. Semper enim sibi constare non videntur. Quippe aliter loquuntur quando cum suis agunt, et apud suos animo sedato et composito docent; aliter vero quum nobiscum dimicant, et disputandi atque contradicendi ardor incaluit. Siquidem in suis nobiscum concertationibus, odio nostri et aestu disputationis abrepti, illi ipsi Romanae scholae Antelignani multa temere effutiunt, non tantum nobis, sed sibi ipsis adversa, quorumque eos ipsos pudet. Itaque ea ipsa alibi in eorum scriptis longe mollius et veritati propius exposita reperiuntur.