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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

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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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He that is jealous is not in love.

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Custom is second nature.

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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

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

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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This world's a bubble.

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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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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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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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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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

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To seek the highest good is to live well.

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

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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

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God is best known in not knowing him.

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

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

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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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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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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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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

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He who labours, prays.

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The greatest evil is physical pain.

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