So there are many chains binding the soul; love of wealth, love of power, love of the affection of wife, parents, children, brothers and sisters, love of country, love of one's land, love of this daylight, love of any sort of life simply because it's life.
Tenent ergo animam multa vincula: amor divitiarum, amor potestatum, amor affectus uxoris parentum filiorum fratrum, amor patriae, amor terrae suae, amor lucis huius, amor qualiscumque vitae tantum quia vitae.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Chains
Augustine, Sermons 335E.3 (C. Lambot, "Nouveaux sermons de S. Augustin. IV-VII. 'De Martyribus'," Revue Bénédictine 50 [1938] 3-25 [at 12-13]; tr. Edmund Hill):