It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
POPE LEO XIIIWages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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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 first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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