March 27, 2012
"And what good has all your reading done you? Out of all the things you have read, how much has really stayed in your soul, what roots have grown there that will, in a good time, bring forth fruit? Examine your heart carefully. If you compare the whole of what you know with what you don’t know, you will find that your knowledge is like a small stream dried up in the summer heat compared to the ocean of your ignorance. And even granted that you do know a lot, what difference does it make?"

— Augustinus in Petrarca’s Secretum, Second Dialogue

March 25, 2012

Augustinus: What is it that you want me to acknowledge?

Franciscus: That as it is true that no one ever fell into misery except voluntarily, so it is also true that countless of those who have thus voluntarily fallen nevertheless do not voluntarily remain miserable. This is most certainly true in my own case. In fact, I think that I have received this as punishment: Because I would not stand firm when I was able, so now I cannot rise when I wish to.

-Petrarca, “First Dialogue,” Secretum

February 14, 2012
Most of this semester’s reading (Taken with instagram)

Most of this semester’s reading (Taken with instagram)

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