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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, "What is this?" Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you."
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The wisdom of what a person says is in direct proportion to his progress in learning the holy scriptures--and I am not speaking of intensive reading or memorization, but real understanding and careful investigation of their meaning. Some people read them but neglect them; by their reading they profit in knowledge, by their neglect they forfeit understanding.
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It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own -- not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction -- not seeking anything through the shame but the shame itself!
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This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person who is loving us, and if that love is not returned - without demanding any physical response other than the marks of affectionate good will.
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As the flattery of friends corrupts, so often do the taunts of enemies instruct.
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