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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"A wise man's mind tends to his right; while a fool's mind tends to his left. Even on the road as the fool walks, he lacks sense, and proclaims to all that he is a fool. "And in the Gospel it is taught that a wise man's left does not know what his right is doing. And when we are hit on the right side of the face, we do not show the left cheek to he who hit us, but the other one. For a wise man does not have a left side in him, but is in fact completely the right side. …
Bonaventure
The heart of the wise man is at his right hand, and the heart of the fool at his left; by the right hand good things are understood, by the left hand evil things: Matthew 25: "He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left." He means therefore to say that the wise think good things and the foolish think evil things: Proverbs 10: "The lips of the just consider what is pleasing, but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse." The right hand gives us to understand eternal goods, the left hand temporal things: whence …
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