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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has…

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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny…
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would…
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the…
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and…
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only…
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

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