"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

Guilt, Tears, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman

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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

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"When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function."

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"That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can't confront it."

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"All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe."

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"It's a terrible thing, what we did, said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it."

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"There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own."

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"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."

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"Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing."

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"Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?"

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"What do I love when I love my God?"

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"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?"

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"Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature."

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"Custom is second nature."

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"The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king."

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"Let the Lord your God be your hope " seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself."

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