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Let us not multiply recitation that crazy people do | while wandering about in our thoughts on refuse heaps | and going out from here empty of benefits | the discerning intellect is wont to amass at these times. | 3.1.54, p. 82
More quotes by Isaac of Nineveh
Love is the offspring of knowledge of the truth which, as is commonly confessed, is given to all.
Question Whence does a man perceive that he has attained to humility?
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