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    10/18/2002 1:49:05 PM PDT · by traditio · 1 replies · 334+ views
    Festina Lente ^ | Jonathan David Carson, Ph.D.
    Now if it were true that Horace and the great poets of the English Renaissance advocated the pursuit of pleasure in response to aging and death, textbook publishers could be reproached with at most a failure to warn students that pleasure is not the same thing as happiness, which is the result of virtue. But it is not true. And finding out why it is not true means unlearning most of what we have been taught about English literature and learning how to fill the rest of our lives with glimpses of heaven.