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" To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. "

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" 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. "

" It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God. "

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" Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. "

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