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In acquiring virtue do not follow the example of those who, in the course of the seven days of the week, arrange their spiritual works in such a way that one should serve one virtue, another- another virtue, and so on, without considering whether they stand in need of this or that at the actual moment. No, do not act thus, but take up arms pre-eminently against the passion which troubles you most, which has often conquered you and which is ready to wtrack you again now. Fight it with your whole strength and strive to establish yourself in the virtue opposed to that passion, using for this purpose all suitable practices and tasks. For as soon as you succeed in this, you will, by this very fact, bring to life all other virtues in yourself and will be clothed in them as in armor, which will then protect you from all of the arrows of passions. By nature our heart is full of good dispositions; but passions come and stifle them. These passions are not of equal strength in every mam, but in one man a passion predominates, in another another passion rules over the rest. As soon as you banish the chief passion, all the others will grow weaker and recede by themselves. When this comes to pass, the good dispositions, freed from their yoke, acquire you in strength natural to them and, standing at the door of your heart, are always ready to serve you, whenever it is required.
№3963643
something retarded about religion or politics for me to debate