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" Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. "

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" By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. "

" Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not. "

" Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. "

" Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. "

" In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. "

" Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. "

" Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. "

" Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. "

" Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. "

" Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. "

" Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. "

" Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. "

" There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. "

" It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. "

" We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. "

" Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. "

" To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. "

" Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. "

" All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. "

" There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. "

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" The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. "

" Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. "

" Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. "

" All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. "

" Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. "

" Beware of the person of one book. "

" Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. "

" God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. "