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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

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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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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

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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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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

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Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

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

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

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We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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