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"Cum deus," inquit, "omnia bonitatis clauo gubernare iure credatur eademque omnia sicuti docui ad bonum naturali intentione festinent, num dubitari potest quin uoluntaria regantur seque ad disponentis nutum ueluti conuenientia contemperataque rectori sponte conuertant?"
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Quia verbum caro factum est; hoc catechumeni audiunt: sed non eis sufficit ad quod inuncti sunt: festinent ad lavacrum, si lumen inquirunt. "
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield
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"Si animalia," inquam, "considerem quae habent aliquam uolendi nolendique naturam, nihil inuenio quod nullis extra cogentibus abiciant manendi intentionem et ad interitum sponte festinent.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Nam uel ad nihil unum cuncta referuntur et uno ueluti uertice destituta sine rectore fluitabunt, aut si quid est ad quod uniuersa festinent, id erit omnium summum bonorum. "
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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[Footnote 816: 'Continete ergo possessorum intemperantes motus.'] [Footnote 817: 'Ex Regiâ jussione singulos conductores massarum et possessores validos admonete, ut nullam contrahant in concertatione barbariem: ne non tantum festinent bellis prodesse quantum quiete confundere.'
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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