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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

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Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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Love God, and do what you like.

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

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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The argument is at an end.

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Only He who made man makes man happy.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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

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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

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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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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

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If you understand, it is not God.

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Whoever possesses God is happy.

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Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

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