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> [What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/what-makes-bitter-things-sweet-hunger/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

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## More by Alcuin

> [Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/men-can-be-attracted-but-not-forced-to-the-faith-you-may-drive-people/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/nec-audiendi-qui-solent-dicere-vox-populi-vox-dei-quum-tumultuositas/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/what-makes-bitter-things-sweet-hunger/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [ Man thinks, God directs. \[Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/man-thinks-god-directs-lat-homo-cogitat-deu-indicat/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/at-athens-wise-men-propose-and-fools-dispose/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/those-people-should-not-be-listened-to-who-keep-saying-the-voice-of/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/if-many-people-follow-your-enthusiastic-endeavours-perhaps-a-new/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [What has Ingeld to do with Christ?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/what-has-ingeld-to-do-with-christ/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/drinking-alone-holds-no-fun-drink-with-friends-or-strangers-be/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/here-halt-i-pray-you-make-a-little-stay-o-wayfarer-to-read-what-i/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

> [Man thinks, God directs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcuin/man-thinks-god-directs/)

[Alcuin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcuin/)

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