[1] “Abstain and uphold.” Stoic maxim.
[2] Petronius, 90. “You have spoken more as a poet than as a man.” [3] “Nothing in excess.”
[4] Horace, Epistle to the pisos, 447. “They curtailed pretentious orna- ments.”
[5] Title given by Pico della Mirandola to one of his proposed nine hundred theses, in 1486.
[6] Tacitus, Annals, iv. “Kindnesses are agreeable so long as one thinks them possible to render; further, recognition makes way for hatred.”
[7] St. Augustine, City of God, xxi. 10. “The manner in which the spirit is united to the body can not be understood by man; and yet it is man.”
[8] Virgil, Georgics, ii. “Happy is he who is able to know the causes of things.”
[9] Horace, Epistles, I. vi. 1. “ To be astonished at nothing is nearly the only thing which can give and conserve happiness.”
[10] Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, i, ii Harum sententiarum quae vera sit, Deus aliquis viderit. “Which of these opinions in the truth, a god will see.”
[11] Montaigne, Essays, ii. [12] Montaigne, Essays, ii. [13] Treatise on the Vacuum.
[14] Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, III. v. 8. “There is one who will say great foolishness with great effort.”
[15] Montaigne, Essays, ii.
[16] Pliny, ii. “As though there were anyone more unhappy than a man dominated by his imagination.”
[17] Cicero, De Divinatione ii. 22. “A common happening does not astonish, even though the cause is unknown; an event such as one has never seen before passes for a prodigy.”
[18] Allusion to Gen. 7. 14. Ipsi et omne animal secundus genus suum. “And every beast after his kind.”
[19] Homer, Odyssey, xviii.
[20] Livy, xxxiv. 17. “A brutal people, for whom, when they have not armour, there is not life.”
[21] Ecclus. 24.11. “With all these I have sought rest.” [22] “Terror which is more powerful than religion.”
[23] “From fear that they are being led by terror, without guidance, domi- nation appears tyrannical.”
[24] “What will become of men who mistake small things and do not believe in greater?”
[25] Is. 45.15. “Thou art a God that hidest thyself.” [26] Wisd. of Sol. 4.12. “Bewitching of naughtiness.”
[27] Wisd. of Sol. 5.15. “The remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.”
[28] 1 Cor. 1.21.
[29] “They have seen the thing; they have not seen the cause.” St. Augus- tine, Contra Pelegium, iv.
[30] Matt. 11.27 “Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”
[31] Is. 45.15. “Verily, thou art a God that hidest thyself.”
[32] 1 Cor. 1.17. “Lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.” [33] Rom. 1.17. “The just shall live by faith.”
[34] Rom. 10.17. “Faith cometh by hearing.” [35] “I know.” “I believe.”
[36] Ps. 119. 36. “Incline my heart, O Lord.”
[37] Wisd. of Sol. 15.8, 16. “He moulds a God... like unto himself.” [38] Matt. 18.3. “Except ye become as little children.”
[39] Ps. 119.36. “Incline my heart, O Lord, unto thy testimonies.”
[40] Cicero, De finibus, V. 21. “There is no longer anything which is ours;
what I call ours is conventional.”
[41] Seneca, Epistles, xcv. “It is by virtue of senatus-consultes and plebiscites that one commits crimes.”
[42] Tacitus, Annals, iii. 25. “Once we suffered from our vices; today we suffer from our laws.”
[43] Saint Augustine, City of God, iv. 27. “As he has ignored the truth which frees, it is right he is mistaken.”
[44] Cicero, De officiis, iii, 17. “Concerning true law.” [45] Eccles. 3.19. “for all is vanity.”
[46] Rom. 8.20-21. “It shall be delivered.”
[47] Horace, Odes, III. xxix. 13. “Changes nearly always please the great.” [48] Seneca, Epistles, xx. 8. “In order that you are satisfied with yourself
and the good that is born from you.”
[49] Montaigne, Essays, ii. 12.
[50] Cicero, De Divinatione, ii. 58. “There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.”
[51] Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, ii. 2. “Devoted to certain fixed opinions, they are forced to defend what they hardly approve.”
[52] Seneca, Epistles, cvi. “We suffer from an excess of literature as from an excess of anything.”
[53] Cicero, De officiis, i. 31. “What suits each one best is what is to him the most natural.”
[54] Virgil, The Georgics, ii. “Nature gave them first these limits.” [55] Seneca, Epistles, cvi. “Wisdom does not demand much teaching.”
[56] Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum. “What is not shameful begins to become so when it is approved by the multitude.”
[57] Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, I. i. 21. “That is how I use it; you must do as you wish.”
[58] Quintillian, x. 7. “It is rare that one sufficiently respects one’s self.” [59] Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae, i. 4. “So many gods are busy around a
single head.”
[60] Cicero, Academica, i. 45. “Nothing is more shameful than to affirm before knowing.”
[61] Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae, i. 25. “I have not shame, as they
do, to admit that I know not what I do not know.”
[62] Seneca, Epistles, lxxii. “It is easier not to begin.... [63] Lam. 3.1. “I am the man that hath seen.”
[64] “What you seek without knowing, religion will announce to you.” Pas- cal misquotes Acts 17.23. “Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.”
[65] Prov. 8.31. “And my delights were with the sons of men.” [66] Joel 2.28. “I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh.”
[67] Ps. 82.6. “Ye are gods.” [68] Is. 40.6. “All flesh is grass.”
[69] Ps. 49.12, 13. “He is like the beasts that perish; this their way is their folly.”
[70] Eccles. 3.18. “I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men.”
[71] 1 Cor. 1.25 “The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
[72] Ovid, Metamorphoses, iii. “No one is happy before death.” [73] 1 John 2.16.
[74] 1 Cor. 1.31. “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” [75] John 14.6. “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
[76] 1 Cor. 6.17. “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” [77] Gen. 4.7. “Unto thee shall be his desire.”
[78] Office for Holy Saturday. “Which won for us a Saviour.”