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maxim[7][6] = "Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it."; | maxim[7][6] = "Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it."; | ||
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 | maxim[7][8] = "In order to avoid all risk of vainglory, 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 is to keep down and thwart touchiness of mind."; | 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."; | ||
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maxim[7][21] = "A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to get out of the way of a temptation to vainglory."; | maxim[7][21] = "A man must not, however, abstain from doing a good work merely to get out of the way of a temptation to vainglory."; | ||
maxim[7][22] = "The love of God makes us do great things."; | maxim[7][22] = "The love of God makes us do great things."; | ||
maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of | maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of vainglory; the first we may call <i>mistress</i>; that is, when vainglory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it: the second we may call <i>companion</i>; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vainglory, but feels complacency in doing it: the third we may call <i>servant</i>; that is, when vainglory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things never let vainglory be <i>mistress</i>."; | ||
maxim[7][24] = "When | maxim[7][24] = "When vainglory is <i>companion</i>, it does not take away our merit; but perfection requires that it should be <i>servant</i>."; | ||
maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God, desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in every thing either to act or not to act, and that not in indifferent matters only, but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God."; | maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God, desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in every thing either to act or not to act, and that not in indifferent matters only, but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God."; | ||
maxim[7][26] = "The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years."; | maxim[7][26] = "The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years."; | ||
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