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Lorenzo Scupoli has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our Lord Christ Himself strikes down our enemies through us, or in company with us. For he who eats Christ's flesh and…
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You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same'…
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The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at…
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We should feel with our whole heart that we have no one to rely on except God, and that from Him, and…
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Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the…
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Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state…
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... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not…
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... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb…
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... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite…
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The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show…
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Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner…
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When you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell on them or on anything relating to…
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second…
— Samuel Johnson
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success…
— Samuel J. Tilden
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of…
— Gautama Buddha
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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
— Publilius Syrus
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No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background…
— Alan Redpath
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
— Denis Diderot
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