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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

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Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

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My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

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Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

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The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

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The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.

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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

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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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The measure of love is to love without measuring.

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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

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Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

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