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Without form or comeliness, and nailed to the cross—thus is truth to be adored.

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More quotes by Guigo I

Prepare your mind to live in the company of evil people, with your mind unsullied; to do this is to live like an angel.

Anyone who delights in praise destroys it.

To want good things even for the wicked is a characteristic of saints.

Nothing is more laborious for you than not to labor at all—in other words, to despise everything that gives rise to our labors, which means all that is subject to change.

The more noble and powerful a creature is, the more willingly it submits to the truth. Indeed it is powerful and noble precisely because of its submission.

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