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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
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Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love if you spare, spare for love.
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.
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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.
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War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
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It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.
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Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
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My weight is my love.
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Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
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Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
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While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
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