Nam cum coeperis deae servire, tunc magis senties fructum tuae libertatis.
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For when you have once begun to serve the Goddess, you will then in a still higher degree enjoy the fruit of your liberty.
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Bk. 11, ch. 15; p. 233.Apuleius
Magna pars libertatis est bene moratus venter et contumeliae patiens.
Seneca the Younger
Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes
tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque?Gaius Valerius Catullus
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.
Aristotle
There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels — ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica. There are others where religion is nothing but ritual; and these are worse than the first, for the Spirit of God is not in them, and they are inflated with self-righteousness. There are those, again, where the brethren are so sick of the imposture that they keep it up only to deceive the vulgar. The houses are rare indeed where the rule is seriously observed, and even in these few, if you look to the bottom, you will find small sincerity. But there is craft, and plenty of it — craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. Suppose a house where all is as it ought to be, you have no security that it will continue so. A good superior may be followed by a fool or a tyrant, or an infected brother may introduce a moral plague. True, in extreme cases a monk may change his house, or even may change his order, but leave is rarely given. There is always a suspicion of something wrong, and on the least complaint such a person is sent back.
Desiderius Erasmus
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
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