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When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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No one heals himself by wounding another.
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The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
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What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
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There is no time of life past learning something.
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Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
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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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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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True repentance is to cease from sin.
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.
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The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.
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For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?
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It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.
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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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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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