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maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God, desires nothing but His honour, 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 honour, 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."; | ||
maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no person, to despise | maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no person, to despise oneself, to despise being despised."; | ||
maxim[7][28] = "Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it."; | maxim[7][28] = "Perfection consists in leading captive our own will, and in playing the king over it."; | ||
maxim[7][29] = "A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things, if he wishes easily to mortify it in great ones, and to advance in the way of virtue."; | maxim[7][29] = "A man ought to mortify his understanding in little things, if he wishes easily to mortify it in great ones, and to advance in the way of virtue."; | ||
