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"Humility is attentive patience."
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"False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit."

"Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."


"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."


"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."


"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."


"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."


"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
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