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• He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

  Saint Basil

  Discipline, Males, Guilty

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• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

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  Animal, Parent, Reason

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.142, CUA Press

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• She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.

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  Justice, Abortion, Fetus

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• Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.

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  Light, Environmental, Care

  Saint Basil the Great, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Letters”, p.190, Aeterna Press

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• What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

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  Life, Men, Soul

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• All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

  Saint Basil

  Stars, Eye, Views

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• Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

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  Dream, Sleep, Exercise

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• All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

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  Baptized In, Baptism, Grace

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.391, CUA Press

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• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

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  Swans, Deep Water, Fishing

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.131, CUA Press

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• We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

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  Skills, Shadow, Trying

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• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

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  Evil, Doctrine, Taught

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.19, CUA Press

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• Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

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  School, Letters, Critics

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• Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

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  Art, Fall, Toil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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