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Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death. It did not please God to save his people through dialectic. When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of the church where you are. Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more; Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi. In some causes silence is dangerous; so if any know of conspiracies against their country or king, or any that might greatly prejudice their neighbor, they ought to discover it. The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church. ambrose
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