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Every city is a living body.

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He that is jealous is not in love.
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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
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This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.
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So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
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Singing is a lover's thing.
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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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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
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