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- From: Oris <indian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:34:50 GMT
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to
be full of them and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add
the further fault of a voluntary illusion. We do not like others to deceive
us; we do not think it fair that they should be held in higher esteem by us
than they deserve; it is not, then, fair that we should deceive them and
should wish them to esteem us more highly than we deserve.
Thus, when they discover only the imperfections and vices which we really
have, it is plain they do us no wrong, since it is not they who cause them;
they rather do us good, since they help us to free ourselves from an evil,
namely, the ignorance of these imperfections. We ought not to be angry at
their knowing our faults and despising us; it is but right that they should
know us for what we are and should despise us, if we are contemptible.
Such are the feelings that would arise in a heart full of equity and
justice. What must we say then of our own heart, when we see it in a wholly
different disposition? For is it not true that we hate truth and those who
tell it us, and that we like them to be deceived in our favour, and prefer
to be esteemed by them as being other than what we are in fact? One proof of
this makes me shudder. The Catholic religion does not bind us to confess our
sins indiscriminately to everybody; it allows them to remain hidden from all
other men save one, to whom she bids us r
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