If the world grows too worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows too worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldliness by the world. (23)
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If the morbid Renaissance intellectual is supposed to say, "To be or not to be - that is the question," then the massive medieval doctor does most certainly reply in a voice of thunder, "To be - that is the answer." (105)
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