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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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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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The good man, though a slave, is free the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.
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We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.
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The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.
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It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.
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Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
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The playthings of our elders are called business.
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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
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