Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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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."
17Cicero, 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."
19Homer, Odyssey, xviii.
20Livy, xxxiv. 17. "A brutal people, for whom, when they have not armour,
there is not life."
21Ecclus. 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,
domination appears tyrannical."
[24]"What will become of men who mistake small things and do not believe in
greater?"
25Is. 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."
281 Cor. 1:21.
29"They have seen the thing; they have not seen the cause." St. Augustine,
Contra Pelagium, iv.
30Matt. 11:27