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When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
In some causes silence is dangerous.
When in Rome, live in the Roman way.
True repentance is to cease from sin.
The Psalms are the voices of the church.
No one heals himself by wounding another.
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
There is no time of life past learning something.
The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.
It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.
Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?
When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.
As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.