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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Geremia on March 15, 2020, 04:23:59 PM
- Pascal (Penées S168/L136 (http://www.penseesdepascal.fr/Divertissement/Divertissement4-moderne.php)): "man's unhappiness arises from one thing alone: that he cannot remain quietly in his room." (Ariew's transl. (https://isidore.co/calibre#panel=book_details&book_id=4374))
("tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre.") - St. Alphonsus (Discourse to pious maidens (https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7683)): "How much more easy is it for devout girls to become holy in their own houses than in a convent!"
- St. Catherine of Siena (Legenda maior (https://isidore.co/calibre#panel=book_details&book_id=5930)): "Make yourself a cell in your own mind from which you need never come out."
- St. Thomas Aquinas (letter to Friar John on how to study (https://isidore.co/aquinas/DearJohn.htm)): "Love spending much time in your cell, if you want to be led into the wine cellar."