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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.

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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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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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Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

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For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

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So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

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