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“[S]ome sins are forgiven in this world, and some other may be pardoned in the next: for that which is denied concerning one sin, is consequently understood to be granted touching some other.”
― The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great
― The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great
“Joan of Arc was not stuck at the cross-roads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path, and went down it like a thunderbolt.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“I arrived in Constantinople not a week ago with great joy in my heart because I was to meet the most pious prince, Justinian Augustus, defender of orthodoxy and of the Roman Empire. But yea, where I sought the most Christian Emperor, I have found, instead, Diocletian.”
― Belisarius Book III: Rome the Eternal
― Belisarius Book III: Rome the Eternal
“A good purpose, which has known God, cannot be changed.”
― The Complete Works of Saint Cyprian of Carthage
― The Complete Works of Saint Cyprian of Carthage
“Education does not deliver us always from evil. Education could conceivably make clever devils instead of stupid ones. If we had to choose between the two, we would prefer the stupid devils.”
― Life Is Worth Living
― Life Is Worth Living
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