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Thales of Miletus

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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
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Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.
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Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.
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The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
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Shun security.
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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
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There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not...
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God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
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Know thyself.
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The past is certain, the future obscure.
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A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
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Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.
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A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
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Teachers greatly influence how students perceive and approach struggle in the mathematics classroom....
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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do...
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught...
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted...
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to ou...
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Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and i...
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place ...
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I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myse...
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Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do no...
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild b...
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an en...
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, ...
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There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in ...
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything...
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died ...
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be t...
JOAN OF ARC
In the light of faith I am strong, constant, and persevering.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and...
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It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the du...
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About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
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Act, and God will act.
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If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. ...
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,...
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The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ...
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For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of...
TERESA OF AVILA
We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e...
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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind...
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Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to eve...
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Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing va...
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I am the herald of the Great King.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them brigh...
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no ene...
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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God...
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Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ru...
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He (Scipio of Rome) did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals a...
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Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at onc...
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If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
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Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings ...
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Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
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I don't exist when you don't see me.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA
Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's wom...
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You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILA
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical...
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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and...
TERESA OF AVILA
You can't step twice into the same river.
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Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the pr...
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He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He shoul...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a ...
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have...
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA
You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wea...
SISTERS OF MERCY
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS
The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. An...
JULIAN OF NORWICH
What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
ROBERT OF DONCASTE
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
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True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain ef...
TERESA OF AVILA
We
BAND OF BROTHERS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerab...
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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil...
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Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
TERESA OF AVILA
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him th...
CATHERINE OF SIENA
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDER OF ATHENS
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Most men are bad.
BIAS OF PRIENE
Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnera...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest n...
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS
Manners maketh man.
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
ZENO OF CITIUM
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
HERMOCRATES OF SYRACUSE
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintan...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... sett...
JOAN OF ARC
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the imp...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first tw...
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Business tomorrow.
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when y...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
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I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment......
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA
if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...
ZENO OF CITIUM
YHVH Is Love; Satan Is Pride
MONK OF YHVH
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
THERESE OF LISIEUX
You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not...
ISAAC OF NINEVEH
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
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