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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

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Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.

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Beware of bad Catholics.

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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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

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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

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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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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

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Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

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

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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

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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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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

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We speak, but it is God who teaches.

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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

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