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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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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

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It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

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Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

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It is a sin to judge any man by his post

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In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

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The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

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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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Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

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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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Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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