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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.

~Saint Augustine

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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

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Hear the other side.

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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