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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
— Pope John XXIII
Latin Catholic priest, transitional deacon, Latin Catholic bishop, military chaplain
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
One of my favorite phrases that brings me great comfort: We are not on earth as museum keepers, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope!
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
