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Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea) ("The Great")

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POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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JOHN GREEN I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.
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O.R. MELLING The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
MOTHER TERESA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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MOTHER TERESA I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touc...
MOTHER TERESA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
MOTHER TERESA Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER TERESA True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only...
MOTHER TERESA Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need...
MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER TERESA Peace begins with a smile.
MOTHER TERESA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left...
MOTHER TERESA If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have t...
MOTHER TERESA Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
MOTHER TERESA Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan...
MOTHER TERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
MOTHER TERESA Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...
MOTHER TERESA A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER TERESA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
MOTHER TERESA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be...
MOTHER TERESA Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
MOTHER TERESA I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
MOTHER TERESA My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
MOTHER TERESA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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ST. JEROME Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME Dreams have a profound way of waking us up.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK

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SAINT BASIL of thought.
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CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
THE GREAT PACIFIST My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
CATHERINE THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I do not pilfer victory.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath plac...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
CYRUS THE GREAT All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find ...
CYRUS THE GREAT Every man has a wild beast within him.
FREDERICK THE GREAT If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against th...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
CATHERINE THE GREAT My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 All that which our blessed Saviour wroug...
GREGORY THE GREAT All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT EPIPHANY Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to...
LEO THE GREAT I have head the nightingale herself.
AGESILAUS, THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
FREDERICK THE GREAT To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not t...
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FREDERICK THE GREAT When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All o...
ALFRED, THE GREAT Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]
CATHERINE, THE GREAT The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society
FREDERICK THE GREAT A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.
FREDERICK THE GREAT By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes
FREDERICK THE GREAT Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
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ALFRED THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?
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FREDERICK THE GREAT Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl
FREDERICK THE GREAT Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and b...
FREDERICK THE GREAT I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
CATHERINE THE GREAT You rogues, do you want to live for ever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am not afraid of a pack of lions being led by a sheep, but I am afriad of a pack of sheep led by a...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly wh...
CATHERINE THE GREAT If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimon...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am not afraid of any army of lions led by a sheep,I am afraid of any army of sheep led by a lion
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
CATHERINE THE GREAT In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am one of the people who love the why of things
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CATHERINE THE GREAT When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Your wit makes others witty.
CATHERINE THE GREAT For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him t...
ALFRED THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am one of the people who love the why of things.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
CATHERINE THE GREAT There are no more worlds to conquer!
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which h...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according ...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, domina...
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.
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SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent cryst...
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SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, w...
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SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associa...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me...
SAINT AMBROSE OF MILAN