zondag 7 maart 2010

The usual run of things

"Nobody is so wise as to be able to forecast every individual case, and accordingly he cannot put into words all the factors that fit the end he has in view. Even were the legislator able to take every event into consideration, he still should not set them all down in detail, for this would lead to muddle; but he should frame a law according to the usual run of things"
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a2ae.96.6.

donderdag 4 maart 2010

Nothing new

'What was, will be again, what has been done, will be done again,
and there is nothing new under the sun'
Ecclesiasticus, 1.9