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“Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil”

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The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…

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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself,…

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An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

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He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

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