“Some have compassion on their flesh, not on their soul. "The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children." Such a one is not like the Virgin nor like Christ. "He boils his children" who has no compassion on his own soul, but exposes it to the fire of concupiscence and of infernal torments. Of such a wo…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 6
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14Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.
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12Behold not every body’s beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.
13For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.
— Sirach 42:14 —
15I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.
16The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.