| Author Quoted | Jean Mabillon o.s.b. |
| Title Quoted | Traite des etudes monastiques |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1958/11/10 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1691 |
| Quotation | Reading Mabillon's wise and delightful book on monastic studies. Among other things-this beautiful quotation from Seneca: "Si te ad studia revocaveris, omne vitae fastidium epurgeris, nec noctem fieri optabis tardis lucis, nec tibi gravis eris, nec aliis superacuris." ["If you will give yourself to study, you will ease every burden of life, you will neither wish for night to come or the light to fail; neither shall you be worried or preoccupied with other things."] |
| Quotation Source | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 229 |
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