“Humility is attentive patience.”
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
