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12 Sept 2018

Little Children And Virtue

Dic mihi, infans parvulus quantas virtutes habet? 

Respondit: IV: Non laesus meminit; non perseveret in ira; non delectatur pulchra femina; non aliud cogitant vel aliud loquitur.

Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis, De Veteri et Novo Testamento Quaestiones, Quaestio XL
Tell me, does a little child have any virtues? 

I reply that he has four: He does not remember an injury, he does not persist in anger, he does not lust for feminine beauty, he does not think one thing and say another.

Saint Isidore of Seville, Questions on the Old and New Testaments, Question 40

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