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What do you possess if you possess not God?

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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

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Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

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

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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

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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

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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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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

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We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

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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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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

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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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