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Evangelical poverty not only commands one to leave, but to give as much as one has.

— Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi

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Imagine that everything you do is the last act of your life, decisive in an eternity of good or an eternity of evil.

The cursed human respect is a hungry wolf, an enraged lion, who devours himself and swallows most good works.

The truth is indeed pure that if one were to admit a mixture of other things she would no longer be truth.

The vocation to religion is the greatest gratia that God can give to his elect after baptism.

When the priests live badly, the sun eclipses and the light turns to darkness, filling everything with disorder.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

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If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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