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Consider the roads blocked up by robbers, the seas beset with pirates, wars scattered all over the earth with the bloody horror of camps. The whole world is wet with mutual blood; and murder, which in the case of an individual is admitted to be a crime, is called a virtue when it is committed wholesale.

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No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

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