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— Marcus Aurelius"People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things."
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The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.
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