Homer and Aristotle in Hell

"...It follows therefore that the glory of man is such as the life of man is. For although glory do continue after the end of our life, yet what shall that glory avail him that has no sense, nor feeling the thereof? What does it avail Homer now while thou so highly praise and commends his Iliads? Undoubtedly no more but as S. Jerome says speaking of Aristotle, "Woe be unto thee Aristotle, that are praised where thou art not, to wit, here in the world: and art tormented where thou art indeed: to wit, in hell." --Ven. Luis de Granada. Of Prayer and Meditation. Scolar Press, 1971.

Socrates, Cicero, Seneca, are said to have been acquainted with the knowledge of one Supreme God; but they had not courage to profess his worship, and in their public conduct basely sacrificed to stocks and stones with the vulgar. When men have banished from their heart the sense of religion, and despise the rights of justice, (and is this not the case with numbers?) will many of them scruple to offer incense to a statue, if by so doing they serve their ambition, their interest, or whatever may be their favorite passion?Where is the cause for surprise, then, if infidelity and irreligion be succeeded by idolatry? The Catholic Dogma

Virtues and Spiritual Doctrine of St. Vincent de Paul By Michel Ulysse Maynard, Abbe Maynard, Louise de Marillac: ""