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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

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The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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

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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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