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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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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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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. ↗

— Francis Aungier

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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