Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Studiousness is the virtue which disposes a person toapply his mind for the purpose of acquiring and extendingknowledge.
2. The virtue of studiousness is a part of thevirtue of temperance. For it is the function of temperance tomoderate appetite, to prevent excess, in the use of material goods.In reference to the spiritual appetite for knowledge, studiousnesshas this temperance-function of moderating desire and preventingexcess. The tie-up of studiousness with temperance is effectedthrough the virtue of modesty (See above, q. 160).
"It is vanity to be concerned with the present only and not to make provision for things to come."
Thomas á Kempis
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"A single act of uniformity with the divine will suffices to make a saint."
St Alphonsus de Liguori
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"Let no one wear a mask, otherwise he will do ill; and if he has one, let him burn it."
St Philip Neri
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