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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

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The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

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If you understand, it is not God.

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

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Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

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The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

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I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

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