Quotes with patrimony

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• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

  St. Francis of Assisi
  Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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• Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

  Machiavelli
  Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• distinctive
• patrimony
• poverty
• possess
• beneath
• begging

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