Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light, although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Works, Vol. iii. In Johannis Evangelum, c. tr. 5, Section 15, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
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Diogenes Laėrtius, Lib. vi. section 63Augustine of Hippo
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Etsi difficiile esse videtur credere quicquam
in rebus solido reperiri corpore posse.
transit enim fulmen caeli per saepta domorum,
clamor ut ad voces; flamen candescit in igni
dissiliuntque ferre ferventi saxa vapore.
tum labefactatus rigor auri solvitur aestu;
tum glacies aeris flamma devicta liquescit;
permanat calor argentum penetraleque frigus
quando utrumque manu retinentes pocula rite
sensimus infuso lympharum rore superne.Lucretius
Vide, inquiunt, ut invicem se diligant; ipsi enim invicem oderunt: et ut pro alterutro mori sint parati; ipsi enim ad occidendum alterutrum paratiores erunt.
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Vile latens virtus.
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Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.
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