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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

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No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

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"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

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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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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

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Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

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