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maxim[7][7] = "We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations which God sends us, or the favors He grants us. <i>Secretum meum mihi! Secretum meum mihi!</i>"; | maxim[7][7] = "We ought not to publish or manifest to every one the inspirations which God sends us, or the favors He grants us. <i>Secretum meum mihi! Secretum meum mihi!</i>"; | ||
maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vain-glory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetnesses and sensible consolations in public places."; | maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vain-glory, we ought to make some of our particular devotions in our own rooms, and never seek for sweetnesses and sensible consolations in public places."; | ||
maxim[7][9] = "The true medicine to cure us of pride | maxim[7][9] = "The true medicine to cure us of pride is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind."; | ||
maxim[7][10] = "When a man is reproved for anything, he ought not to take it too much to heart, for we commit a greater fault by our sadness than by the sin for which we are reproved."; | maxim[7][10] = "When a man is reproved for anything, he ought not to take it too much to heart, for we commit a greater fault by our sadness than by the sin for which we are reproved."; | ||
maxim[7][11] = "Those who, when they have got a little devotion, think they are some great one, are only fit to be laughed at."; | maxim[7][11] = "Those who, when they have got a little devotion, think they are some great one, are only fit to be laughed at."; | ||
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