Philip Francis , 1743 (1708–73; English Clergyman and Writer) translates Horace’s “Rectius Vives”
Art is less noble and commendable than nature.
Popular opinion is wrong: it is much easier to go along the sides, where the outer edge serves as a limit and a guide, than by the middle way, wide and open, and to go by art than by nature; but it is also much less noble and less commendable. Greatness of soul is not so much pressing upward and forward as knowing how to set oneself in order and circumscribe oneself. It regards as great whatever is adequate and shows its elevation by liking moderate things better than eminent ones. —Montaigne, Essays, quoted
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You are not responsible for your country, for your continent, you are not. You are responsible for yourself. If you are not holy, you are to blame, no one else. —Wanda Półtawska
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Persona Christi. Persona is feminine, which shows that gender doesn’t determine sex.
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There are triumphant losses more to be envied than victories. —Montaigne, quoted, Stefan Zeig, The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin
Whose image and name are on it? Sc. 78, today’s Gospel
Here Jesus refers to Genesis 1:26, 27.
Nobody talks like him. Sc. 56, John 7:46
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The written word has never, in times of tension and doom, the strength of warm and living speech. —Zweig, ibid.
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It’s kind of weird to think that the animal-rights activists have more clout with vaccine companies than do the anti-abortion activists. —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
No final drug is ever completely ‘pure’ and you will find contaminating DNA and cellular debris from the production cell in your final product. When we switch from using animal cells to using human cells we now have human DNA in our vaccines and our drugs. —Dr. Theresa A. Deisher
“Master, Master, open the door!” Sc. 78, Matthew 25:11, Luke 13:25
Some who ask to enter will not.
That there are no contemporary records of Christ’s life should console people who are sad because no one hears them.
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Write for today; few of us will be remembered tomorrow, except in eternity.
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