"One must choose in all things a mean just and good."
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"All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there."
"So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim."
"The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted."
"There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares."
"The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark."
"Try all things, hold fast that which is good."
"A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself."
"Prayer is in all things, in all gestures."
"Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things."
"You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see."
"All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible."
"Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover."
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."
"When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful."
"Life is heavier than the weight of all things."
"Patient endurance attends to all things."
"Time bears away all things."
"Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole."
"All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being."