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- One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of…
- We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else.
- . . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about…
- It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the…
- [M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of suffering, and which…
- I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself like that. However,…
- It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.
- There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
- He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.
- It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that…
- . . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as…
- We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to…
- Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.
- May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured…
- Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.
- You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces…
- There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited…
- Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means…
- I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk…
- Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen…
- But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully in the presence…
- Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.…
- Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth . . .
- Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more…
- We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle