"Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place."
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"It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need"
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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."
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"Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command."
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"I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate."
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"An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates."
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"I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me."
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"The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God."
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"Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery."
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"Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin"
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"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
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"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
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"The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God."
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"Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work."
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"Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail."
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"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
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"God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason."
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"You change people by delight, by pleasure."
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"God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful."
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"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
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