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- Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), On the Epistle to the Ephesians
- No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- Saint John Chrysostom (347 AD - 407 AD), Letter to Olympia
- Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
- The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
- Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
- Heloise (1098 - 1164), Letter
- Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), Two Precepts of Charity
- In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- The experience of this sweet life.
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
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