He who endeavours to ascend to the highest place, rises by degrees or steps, and not by leaps.
Qui summum locum ascendere nititur, gradibus vel passibus non autem saltibus elevatur.
Pope Gregory I – aka Gregory the Great, Roman theologian, , 590-604 Holy Father, one of the four Latin doctors of the Church(etwa 540-604), from his letter to Mellitus (Epistel XI, 56, 18.7.601), Quotations book 2019