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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

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Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

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Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

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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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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

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Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

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In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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