Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Yes, yes, exactly!
...She values especially the Greek and Latin languages in which wisdom itself is cloaked, as it were, in a vesture of gold...
from Veterum Sapientia by Pope John XXIII.

This is why I always prefer the original language, even when it is a challenge to process. Things carefully articulated and expressed in Latin just don't have the same effect in translation.

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