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Joe Offer	BS:Christian Persecution? School funding in Israel (157* d)	RE: BS:Christian Persecution? School funding in Israel	01 Jun 15
Teribus, I'd like to think the Jesuits got their quote from Aristotle, and it certainly does sound Aristotelian in nature. But the Website you cited does not cite chapter and verse. On top of that, it implies that the quote comes from a book written by Aristotle titled The Philosophy of Aristotle. Aristotle wrote no book with that title. The most credible information I found comes from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, which calls the slogan a "Jesuit maxim." Others attribute it to St. Ignatius Loyola or St. Francis Xavier, but there is nothing credible to verify these attributions. If I'm to believe it comes from Aristotle, I need to see chapter and verse. This page (click) makes a good attempt at studying the origin of the quotation, but it's inconclusive. -Joe-

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