People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
POPE LEO XIIIPeace is built on the foundation of justice.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
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Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
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We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.
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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
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