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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the…
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Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to…
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Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.
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Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
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Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting…
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God,…
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear…
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The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.
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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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I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower.…
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers…
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them…
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...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you,…
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a…
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I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set…
— Heinrich Heine
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It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but…
— Randall Jarrell
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very…
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