You will derive no satisfaction from them.

Those species of monsters have pagan inclinations and their double nature does not dispose them to purity of morals." The bland Lactantius replied in these terms: "He who has just spoken is assuredly the best historian in Paradise, for Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Livy, Velleius Paterculus, Cornelius Nepos, Suetonius, Manetho, Diodorus Siculus, Dion Cassius, and Lampridius are deprived of the sight of God, and Tacitus suffers in hell the torments that are reserved for blasphemers.

But Paul Orosius does not know heaven as well as he knows the earth, for he does not seem to bear in mind that the angels, who proceed from man and bird, are purity itself." "We are wandering," said the Eternal.

"What have we to do with all those centaurs, harpies, and angels?
We have to deal with penguins." "You have spoken to the point, Lord," said the chief of the fifty doctors, who, during their mortal life had been confounded by the Virgin of Alexandria, "and I dare express the opinion that, in order to put an end to the scandal by which heaven is now stirred, old Mael's penguins should, as St.Catherine who confounded us has proposed, be given half of a human body with an eternal soul proportioned to that half." At this speech there arose in the assembly a great noise of private conversations and disputes of the doctors.

The Greek fathers argued with the Latins concerning the substance, nature, and dimensions of the soul that should be given to the penguins.
"Confessors and pontiffs," exclaimed the Lord, "do not imitate the conclaves and synods of the earth.