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maxim[8][20] = "In our clothes we ought, like St. Bernard, to love poverty, but not filthiness."; | maxim[8][20] = "In our clothes we ought, like St. Bernard, to love poverty, but not filthiness."; | ||
maxim[8][21] = "He who wishes to advance in spirituality should never slur over his defects negligently without a particular examination of conscience, even independent of the time of sacramental confession."; | maxim[8][21] = "He who wishes to advance in spirituality should never slur over his defects negligently without a particular examination of conscience, even independent of the time of sacramental confession."; | ||
maxim[8][22] = "A man should not so attach himself to the means as to forget the end; neither must we give ourselves so much to mortify the flesh as to forget to mortify the | maxim[8][22] = "A man should not so attach himself to the means as to forget the end; neither must we give ourselves so much to mortify the flesh as to forget to mortify the mind, which is the chief thing after all."; | ||
maxim[8][23] = "We ought to desire the virtues of prelates, cardinals, and popes, but not their dignities."; | maxim[8][23] = "We ought to desire the virtues of prelates, cardinals, and popes, but not their dignities."; | ||
maxim[8][24] = "The skin of self-love is fastened strongly on our hearts, and it hurts us to flay it off; the more we get down to the quick, the more keen and difficult it is."; | maxim[8][24] = "The skin of self-love is fastened strongly on our hearts, and it hurts us to flay it off; the more we get down to the quick, the more keen and difficult it is."; | ||
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