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From Quotes by Saint Ambrose
- God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be…
- It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to…
- O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in…
- A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with…
- One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a…
- God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life…
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