"If you are at Rome live in the……" — Ambrose
"If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere."
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63 Quotes by Ambrose
Ambrose has 63 quotes on this site.
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When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ.…
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
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Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No…
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous…
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The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but…
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Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he…
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If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is…
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The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by…
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The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal,…
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More Elsewhere Quotes
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In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the…
— Scott Adams
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
— Theodor Adorno
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for…
— William Blake
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
— Andre Breton
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed…
— Piers Anthony
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to…
— Stephen Levine
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— John Pringle Nichol
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
— Mark Twain
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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