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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

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If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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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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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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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

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

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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The one who sings, prays twice.

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For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

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Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

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If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

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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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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

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