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7 Ambrose Quotes

Ambrose's collection reads like a thoughtful meditation on mortality, peace and how we adjust.

Ambrose quotes

  1. Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

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

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  3. It did not please God to save his people through dialectic.

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  4. 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.

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  5. Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more; Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.

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  6. 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.

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  7. The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

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