Capitolo 36
because it improperly seemed to him vainglorious to call a wise man
man." In this passage, therefore when the sentence "evident for
the praiseworthiness of life" them you/he/she is used, it is evident that
the wise man, in the other words the philosophers, had called so less
because of erudition theirs that from their reason for virtuous life.
In that sobriety and continence these men lived it is not for me to
you try from illustration, so that not me Minerva I should seem to instruct
her.
She now, added, if laymen and gentiles, limited by any profession of
religion, lived after this way what owes her a cleric and a,
canon, to do for not preferring the scurvy voluptuousness to Your
the sacred duties, to prevent this Charybdis to suck down her
precipitately, and to shamelessly be saved himself/herself/themselves from the absorbed being and
irreversibly in such dirt as this? If you don't take care of anything for Your
rights as a cleric, at least you lift Your dignity as a
philosopher. If you despise the reverence owed to God, makes respect for
Your temperament of reputation Your shamelessness. You remember that Socrates
it was chained to a wife, and from that that a gross accident him him
paid for this stain on philosophy, in order that others since then in then
you/he/she would be done more cautious from his/her example. Jerome so the mentions
this bargain, writing on Socrates in his/her first book against
Jovinianus: "Once when he was withstanding a storm of reproaches
what Xantippe was launching to him from a superior history, he was
suddenly drenched with incorrect action it overflows; drying his/her head, he only said,
'I knew there would be a shower after that whole thunder.'"
His/her end matter was that you/he/she would have been dangerous for me to take
his/her back in Paris, and that it would be far more dessert for her to be
called my owner that to be known as my wife; also, no that
these would be as good more honourables for me. In such case, her
says, hooks alone it would hold me to the strength of the and she