Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Quote by Pope John XXIII

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the...

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the...

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in...

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in...

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a...

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a...

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a...

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a...

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but...

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but...

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near...

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near...

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most...

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most...

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not...

We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not...

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness...

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness...

If God created shadows, it was to better emphasize the light.

If God created shadows, it was to better emphasize the light.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly...

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly...

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a...

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a...

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life...

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life...