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maxim[12][14] = "When a man has to buy anything, he ought not to do so because he is moved by an attachment to the thing, but from want and necessity; for it will never do to buy attachments."; | maxim[12][14] = "When a man has to buy anything, he ought not to do so because he is moved by an attachment to the thing, but from want and necessity; for it will never do to buy attachments."; | ||
maxim[12][15] = "Certain little voluntary attachments of self-love must be cut through, and then we must dig round them, and then remove the earth, till we get down deep enough to find the place where they are rooted and interlaced together."; | maxim[12][15] = "Certain little voluntary attachments of self-love must be cut through, and then we must dig round them, and then remove the earth, till we get down deep enough to find the place where they are rooted and interlaced together."; | ||
maxim[12][16] = "A person must be ready to endure, when through a virtuous motive he is mortified by others, and even when God permits him to be in bad odor with others | maxim[12][16] = "A person must be ready to endure, when through a virtuous motive he is mortified by others, and even when God permits him to be in such bad odor with others that he is regarded and driven away as an infected sheep."; | ||
maxim[12][17] = "Our enemy the devil, who fights with us in order to vanquish us, seeks to disunite us in our houses, and to breed quarrels, dislikes, contests, and rivalries, because while we are fighting with each other, he comes and conquers us, and makes us more securely his own."; | maxim[12][17] = "Our enemy the devil, who fights with us in order to vanquish us, seeks to disunite us in our houses, and to breed quarrels, dislikes, contests, and rivalries, because while we are fighting with each other, he comes and conquers us, and makes us more securely his own."; | ||
maxim[12][18] = "He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life, and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss, does not nourish love to God, but chills and freezes it."; | maxim[12][18] = "He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life, and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss, does not nourish love to God, but chills and freezes it."; | ||
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