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• Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
• For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the…
• Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
• Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to…
• Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.
• Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
• Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting…
• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God,…
• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear…
• The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.
• The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through…

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