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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. -- St. Francis De Sale
• SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St.
  Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called sai...
• All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.
  Hence that common opinion seems to be very true, "the rich man is unjust, or the heir to an unjust one....
• Do not wish to be anything but who you are, and try to be that perfectly. -- St. Frances De Sale
• Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
  -- Saint Francis De Sale...
• A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 96...
• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. -- Cato
• You will generally find that everything is defiled with usurious contrac
  hat those very persons have got together the greater part of their money by sheer rapine, who nevertheless assert themselves so confidently to be pure from all contagion of unjust gain....
• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.