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When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
Jacques Maritain
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Jacques Maritain
Age: 90 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 18
Died: 1973
Died: April 28
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The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.
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A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
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