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By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are ab

By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. – Sextus Propertius

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Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. – Sextus Propertius

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Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? – Sextus Propertius

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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. – Author Unknown

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I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization. – Wilfrid Laurier

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No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a mortal sin subject to damnation. – James McGreevey

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