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“But we are men who have no patience and no desire for a little labor and no desire to brace ourselves to accept anything with humility. Therefore we are crushed by our difficulties.�

“Relaxation, freedom from care and repose make the soul flabby, but temptations put it on its mettle and unite it with God.�

� ‘My soul longs for death.� A brother went to consult a senior and said: ‘Why must I endure weariness sitting in my cell?� The senior replied, ‘Because you have not seen the point of the rest to be hoped for, nor of the punishment to come. For if you truly grasped them, even if your cell were full of worms so that you were buried up to the neck, you would endure it without weariness.’�

“Virtue stands in the middle between excess and defect.�

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“The nearer a man is to God the more he sees himself to be a sinner.�