Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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