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guarantee of freedom".3 This confidence in the human ability to seek truth,

to find truth and to live by the truth led to the foundation of the great

European universities. Surely we must reaffirm this today in order to bring

courage to the intellectual forces necessary for the development of a future of

authentic human flourishing, a future truly worthy of man.

With these reflections, dear friends, I offer you my prayerful good wishes

for your demanding work. I pray that it will always be inspired and directed

by a human wisdom which genuinely seeks the truth which sets us free.4

Upon you and your families I invoke God's blessings of joy and peace.

3 Caritas in Veritate, 9. 4 Cfr. Jn 8:28.