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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

"Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?"

"But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way, and we shall drink it more abundantly when we come to the Fatherland."
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