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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

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If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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

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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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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

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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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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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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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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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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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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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