If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

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

Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.