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St. Ambrose (339-397) Roman prelate, Bishop of Milan [Aurelius Ambrosius]

Cum Romanum venio, ieiuno Sabbato; cum hic sum, non ieiuno: sic etiam tu, ad quam forte ecclesiam veneris, eius morem serva, si cuiquam non vis esse scandalum nec quemquam tibi.

[When I am in Rome, I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan, I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place.]

¶ "Letter 54 to Januarius" (c. AD 400)

Quoted in St. Augustine, Epistulae, XXXVI, 14 or 32.

No duty is more urgent than returning thanks.

¶ (Attributed)

They do greatly err who acknowledge that the flesh of man was taken on Himself by Christ, but deny that the affections of man were taken; and they contravene the purpose of the Lord Jesus Himself, since thus they take away from man what constitutes man, for man cannot be man without human affections.

¶ (Attributed)

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

De bono mortis, 8, 31

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