12 labours of hercules iv level 3.83/19/2023 With these there is no greed for profit, no insane rage, no poisonous spite, no reek of lust and if concern for tracking down the truth and meditating on what is right keeps them thin, they are adorned by their good name and fed by their hope. For the first or contemplative life is that which has to do with the search for knowledge and truth, the life led in our days by bishops, priests, and monks, in olden days by philosophers. Philosophers have distinguished a threefold life for mankind, by which they mean first, the meditative second, the practical and third, the sensual – or as we call them in Latin, the contemplative, the active, the voluptuary – as the prophet David declared, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful,” that is, does not go, does not stand, does not sit. Therefore, if you do learn more about these matters, praise the sincerity of a mind which has not held back what it possessed and if you were ignorant of these matters before, you at least have from my efforts an arena in which you can exercise your own mental talents. Just as it is a sign of malice to keep silent on what I know, so it is not a fault to explain what I have understood. But since these matters in no way exalt my reputation or disguise my shortcomings (in the sense that if the reader improve his knowledge by them, he may acknowledge it to God for granting the improvement to him but if he find worse folly in them, he may blame it on the one who committed it), these things, therefore, are not ours, but His gift, and whatever improvements may result, their bestowal is of God, not man. WHITBREAD BOOK 2 PROLOGUEĪttentive to your revered command, Master, I have in my destitute state committed this foolishness of mine to your judgment, suspended on the horns of a dilemma whether any reader will praise what I have put together or demolish what I have worked over. Alpheus & Arethusa MYTHOLOGIES 2 - 3, TRANSLATED BY L.
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