Liber locorum communium

"the evil that constitutes a difference of habits is not [the] pure privation [common to every fallen being], but something determinate...

"The physicist proves the earth to be round by one means [(medium)], the astronomer by another: for the latter proves this by means [(m...

"All things are twofold, one opposite the other,     and he has made nothing incomplete.  One confirms the good things of the other,   ...

accendere:  to set fire to from above, such that what burns burns downwards. succendere:  to set fire to from below, such that what burns bu...

"repeated acts cause a habit to grow.  If, however, the intensity of the act falls short proportionately of the intensity of the habit,...

"the nature of virtue does not require that man should reach [(attingat)] the mean of right reason as though it were an indivisible poi...

"Surely, the Judge of all the earth, would, by the solemnities and atrocities of this astounding event, teach us as a people, lessons f...