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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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