Motto
If a doctor were not famous, then his words would not be believed, and no one would become better under him.
Peter of Pirchenwart2
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Petrus de Pirchenwart, Lectura magistralis in Ewangelium Iohannis, pars I, super Ioh. 1:42, dubium 5 (âUtrum liceat alicui predicatori aut doctori verbi Dei appetere se esse famosumâ), in mss. Wien, Ãsterreichische Nationabibliothek, 4356, f. 210v, and 4447, f. 316ra: âSi doctor famosus non esset, tunc hiis que ab eo dicerentur non crederentur, et sic nullus sub eo crescere posset. Ideo et fama doctoris aut predicatoris propter proximum est necessariaâ.