This states that it is the CDF (the Vatican department that enforces orthodoxy) which must deal with the use of the confessional for sexual exploitation and with the abuse of pre-adolescent children, which is described in the document as crimen pessimum, the worst of all crimes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
'Tis a known saying, Furor fit Iaesa saepius palienlia, the most patient spirit that is, if he be often provoked, will be incensed to madness; it will make a devil of a saint: and therefore Basil (belike) in his Homily de Ira, calls it tenebras rationis, morbum animae, et daemonem pessimum; the darkening of our understanding, and a bad angel. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Vinum frigidis optimum, et pessimum ferina melancholia. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Cap. 6. de curat.graec. affect.rap. de providentia; quotiescunque divitiis affluentem hominem videmus, cumque pessimum, ne quaeso hunc beatissimum putemus, sed infelicem, censeamus, ❋ Unknown (2007)
And the state runneth the danger of that which Tacitus saith; Atque is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Intra hanc Insulam, quatuor sunt genera arborum, de quarum vna accipitur farina ad panem, de secunda mel, de tertia vinum, et de quarta pessimum venenum. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Perversum et pessimum est cor meum, ad deploranda propria peccata mea est lapideum et aridum, ad resistendum insultantibus molle et luteum, ad inutilia et noxia pertractanda velox et infatigabile, ad cogitanda salubria fastidiosum et immobile. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
We pass over the extravagances and gross depths to which bhakti, devotion or faith or love, may degenerate in the excitement of religious festivals -- _corruptio optimi pessimum_. ❋ John Morrison (N/A)
Tis an artifice commonly observed to be much in use there, where the finest tricks of supplanting are practiced, with greatest effect; so that _pessimum_ _inimicorum_ _genus_, ❋ Various (N/A)
Hi primo coepere pessimum quemque et omnibus invisum indemnatum necare; ea [266] populus laetari et merito dicere fieri. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Quodni [109] Catilina maturasset pro curia signum sociis dare, eo die post conditam urbem Romam pessimum facinus patratum foret. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
Nam neque vim eorum adhuc intellectu consequentur; et elocutione, quæ tum sine dubio erat optima, sed nostris temporibus aliena, contenti, quod est pessimum, similes sibi magnis viris videbuntur. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
I have a love of the past which, because it goes down to the roots, has sometimes been called Radicalism: I could never consent with Bacons gibe at antiquity as pessimum conjurium, and Examinations have a very respectable antiquity. ❋ Unknown (1920)
And the state runneth the danger of that which Tacitus saith; Atque is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur [A few were in a humor to attempt mischief, more to desire, all to allow it]. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Some men are praised maliciously to their hurt, thereby to stir envy and jealousy towards them: pessimum genus inimicorum laudantium [the worst kind of enemies are they that praise]; insomuch as it was a proverb amongst the Grecians, that he that was praised to his hurt should have a push2 rise upon his nose; as we say, that a blister will rise upon ones tongue that tells a lie. ❋ Unknown (1909)
I have a love of the past which, because it goes down to the roots, has sometimes been called Radicalism: I could never consent with Bacon's gibe at antiquity as _pessimum augurium, _ and Examinations have a very respectable antiquity. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Hujus regnum optimum est et firmissimum qui ex Deo et cum Deo regnat; hujus vero pessimum et infirmissimum qui sua libidine. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Deo regnat; hujus vero pessimum et infirmissimum qui sua libidine. ❋ Unknown (1889)
