"It is better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre."
- Leo Tolstoy -
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- Leo Tolstoy -
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"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."
- Marcus Aurelius -
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"Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
- Epictetus -
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- Epictetus -
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"Tradition is the means by which the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present."
- T.S. Eliot -
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- T.S. Eliot -
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"Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god."
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila -
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- Nicolás Gómez Dávila -
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"Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood."
- St. Louis de Montfort -
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"What does it matter if you can win a thousand battles if you cannot win against your own corrupt passions? It doesn't matter. The real battle is with ourselves."
- Bl. Carlo Acutis -
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- Bl. Carlo Acutis -
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"A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil."
- St. Dominic -
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- St. Dominic -
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"My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patienlty."
- St. Francis of Assisi -
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- St. Francis of Assisi -
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"To be a reactionary is to understand that man is a problem without a human solution."
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- Nicolás Gómez Dávila -
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