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- Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
- For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it…
- At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of…
- The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
- Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
- That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought…
- The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
- If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to…
- In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
- men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
- The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it…
- The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle