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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

St. Jerome

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Topic

Willful ignorance Ignorance

Author

St. Jerome

Source

Letters of St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

394 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Paulinus. c. 394.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. The Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2016.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

St. Jerome

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Topic

First impressions

Author

St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

403 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Laeta. c. 403, sect. 4.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. "Letter CVII." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 4.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

St. Jerome

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Topic

Assigning blame

Author

St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

379 370s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Presbyter Marcus. c. 379, sect. 2.

Three things are necessary for man to be saved: knowledge of what is to be believed, knowledge of what is to be desired, and knowledge of what is to be done.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Topic

Salvation

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Two Precepts of Charity

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1273 1270s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Citation

St. Thomas Aquinas. Collationes in decem praeceptes [Sermons on the Ten Commandments]. c. 1273, prologue.

The Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth.

Libosus of Vaga

Quoted in On Baptism, Against the Donatists, by Augustine of Hippo

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Topic

Truth Custom and convention Moral absolutism Moral theory Morality

Speaker

Libosus of Vaga

Author

Augustine of Hippo

Source

On Baptism, Against the Donatists

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Libosus of Vaga. Quoted in De Baptismo Contra Donatistas [On Baptism, Against the Donatists]. c. 400, bk. 3, ch. 6, sect. 9.

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologicae

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Topic

Nature of law

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Summa Theologicae

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

Latin

Time

1273 1270s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Original Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1-2.

Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1-2.