"It is ingrained in all living creatures, first……" — Saint Ambrose
"It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous."
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Saint Ambrose
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21 Quotes by Saint Ambrose
Saint Ambrose has 21 quotes on this site.
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that…
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own…
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Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard…
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast…
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made…
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Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too…
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be…
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A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison…
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat…
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to…
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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More Advantageous Quotes
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
— Bill Bryson
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the…
— John Cheever
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
— Henri Poincare
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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
— Sun Tzu
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The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
— Grove Karl Gilbert
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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
— Sun Tzu
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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock.…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces…
— Leo Tolstoy
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to…
— Mickey Rourke
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
— N. Scott Momaday
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