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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

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Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

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

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The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

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A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

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

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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

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

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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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Charity is the root of all good works.

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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

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