"One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth."
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"Sin is Energy in the wrong channel."
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"None save great men have been the authors of great heresies."
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"It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty."
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"The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin."
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"It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up."
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"It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning."
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"My love is my weight. Because of it, I move."
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"So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children."
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"I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit."
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"A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart."
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"Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world."
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"I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake."
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"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."
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"The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own."
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"Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?"
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"The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time."
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"Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."
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"Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much."
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"Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them."
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