Saturday, March 8, 2014

The spirit of the law

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"And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances." וְאֶת־רוּח...
Friday, March 7, 2014

"every passion gathers strength in proportion as it is cultivated, and is increased by all the efforts to satiate it."

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"toute passion se fortifie à mesure qu'on s'en occupe davantage, et s'accroit par tous les efforts qu'on tente pour l...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

"God alone satisfies, and goes/passes on [beyond that] into infinity."

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Deus enim solus satiat, et in infinitum excedit. . . .       St. Thomas Aquinas, In symbolum apostolorum 12 .      Too bad that's no...
Monday, February 24, 2014

"moral claims on moral grounds"

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     "The moral vocabulary that now prevails in the United States is less Marxist but no less vulgar, for it is just as adamant that al...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Gregory on the failure to fish

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"One might decide to suspend judgment about a given intellectual issue in dispute — and indeed prudence often dictated the advisability...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Ben Jonson on abortion

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Oh, you live at court, And there's both loss of time and loss of sport In a great belly.  Write then on thy womb 'Of the not born...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

"Since friends have one mind and one heart, it does not seem that what one friend reveals to another is placed outside of his own heart".

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     "Now he sets down the true sign of friendship on his own part, which is that all that I have heard from my Father I have made know...