"The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion."
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"The happy man in this life needs friends."
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"To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty"
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"It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers."
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"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
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"The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead."
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"Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us."
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"Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing."
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"Charity is love; not all love is charity."
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"The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them."
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""The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.""
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"The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement."
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"Love follows knowledge."
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"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
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"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine."
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"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
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"The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words."
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"Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God."
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"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
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"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
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