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When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

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Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
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Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
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There is no time of life past learning something.
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True repentance is to cease from sin.
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How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
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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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To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
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When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
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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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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.
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Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
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It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
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Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.
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If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
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As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.
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