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If you are at Rome live in the Roman style if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

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No one heals himself by wounding another.
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Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.
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Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say I am with you), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
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But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
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We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
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On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways of belief concerning the Son of God, the marvel seems to be, not at all that human knowledge has been baffled in dealing with superhuman things, but that it has not submitted to the authority of the Scriptures
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Remember, then, that you received a spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear. Keep safe what you received. God the Father sealed you, Christ the Lord strengthened you and sent the Spirit into your hearts as the pledge of what is to come.
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Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
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For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?
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When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.
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If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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