The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
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The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
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A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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