"You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?"

Kempis, Thomas on virtue   

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

Augustine, St. on leadership
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"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."

Augustine, St. on longevity
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love, and do what you like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. on prayer
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"Punishment is justice for the unjust."

Augustine, St. on punishment   

"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

Augustine, St. on service
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"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

Augustine, St. on sin
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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within."

Augustine, St. on god   

"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."

Kempis, Thomas on weakness
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"Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross."

Kempis, Thomas on work   

"No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation."

Kempis, Thomas on conversation   

"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Kempis, Thomas on christians and christianity
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"We do not exist for ourselves..."

Merton, Thomas on cooperation
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"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on abstinence
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"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on faith
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"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."

Augustine, St. on forgiveness   

"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Augustine, St. on freedom
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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

Newton, Sir Isaac on imagination
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"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."

Newton, Sir Isaac on inertia   

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

Newton, Sir Isaac on patience
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"The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions."

Newton, Sir Isaac on preachers and preaching
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"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Newton, Sir Isaac on science
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"Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide."

Newton, Sir Isaac on security   

"If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Newton, Sir Isaac on vision
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"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."

Newton, Sir Isaac on work
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"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies."

Virgil on hell
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"You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these."

Virgil on adversity
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"Evil is nourished and grows by concealment."

Virgil on evil
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"Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it."

Virgil on fate
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"Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love."

Virgil on love
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"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

Socrates on politics
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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

Socrates on morality   

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."

Socrates on marriage
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