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Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus. c. 396, sect. 16.

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Saint Jerome. "Letter LX." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 16.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 1.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5.

Kill them all; for the Lord knoweth them that are His.

Arnaud Amalric

Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles

Statement prior to the massacre at Beziers, France on July 22, 1209, as part of the Albigensian Crusade.

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Arnaud Amalric. Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles, written by Caesarius of Hesterbach. c. 1223.

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Arnaud Amalric. Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles, written by Caesarius of Hesterbach, translated by Ronald Pepin. Vol. 1, Liturgical Press, 2023.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger. Epistulae [Letters]. c. 1st century, bk. 2, no. 15.

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Pliny the Younger. Complete Letters, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, no. 15.

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Magna Carta Libertatum [Great Charter of Freedoms]. 5 June 1215, clause 39.

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Magna Carta, translated by David A. Carpenter. Penguin Classics, 2015, clause 39.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 12.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 12.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Terence. Ἑαυτὸν τιμωρούμενος [Heuton Timoroumenous]. c. 163 BC, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 6.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

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Petronius. Satyricon, Satyricon liber [The Book of Satyrlike Adventures]. c. 1st century AD, sect. 45.

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Petronius. "The Satyricon." The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, translated by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986, sect. 45.

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Descartes, René. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur [Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated]. Paris, 1641, third meditation.

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Descarte, René. "Meditations on First Philosophy." Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing, 1999, third meditation.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Furia. c. 394, sect. 13.

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Saint Jerome. "Letter LIV." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 13.

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Magna Carta Libertatum [Great Charter of Freedoms]. 5 June 1215, clause 39.

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Magna Carta, translated by David A. Carpenter. Penguin Classics, 2015, clause 39.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Furia. c. 394, sect. 4.

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Saint Jerome. "Letter LIV." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 4.

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus." c. 396, sect. 19.

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Saint Jerome. "Letter LX." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 19.

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Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 2, poem 3.

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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 2, poem 3.

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style: when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

St. Ambrose

Quoted in Letter to Casulanus, by Saint Augustine

Saint Ambrose's advice to Saint Augustine.

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Saint Ambrose. Quoted in "Letter To Casulanus, From Saint Augustine." c. 396, ch. 32.