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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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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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Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within

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Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

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You are what you love.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

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Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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We judge all things according to the divine truth.

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Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

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