Apr 27, 2022 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“Through pain I’ve learned To comfort suffering men.” Virgil, The Aeneid (Dido to Aeneas) The incomparable Virgil once again gives us words through which to see our own life. There is a reason that in Dante’s masterpiece The Divine Comedy Virgil acts as a guide....
Mar 23, 2022 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“Grief everywhere, Everywhere terror, and all shapes of death.” Virgil, The Aeneid War is a horror. And as there is consistently war somewhere, in our ‘connected’ world we learn to live under the cloud of war. Yet some wars are more proximate, engaging us more...
Mar 9, 2022 | Natural Steward, Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“And give the physician his place, for the Lord created him… There is a time when success lies in the hands of physicians, for they too will pray to the Lord that he should grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preserving life.” Ben...
Feb 9, 2022 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“There is an order that reason does not establish but only beholds, such is the order of things in nature.” Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics What do we spend our time and energy thinking about? For most of us, living what is traditionally...
Feb 2, 2022 | Man of the Household, Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
I shall reproach him because he attaches little importance to the most important things and greater importance to inferior things. Socrates, Plato’s Apology Trying to live a good life, you spend your days deliberating about hard questions. There is no way around this....
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