The soul must always be inclined to:
- not to the easiest thing, but the hardest;
- not to the tastiest thing, but the most insipid;
- not to t he thing that gives the greatest pleasure, but to those that give the least;
- not to restful things, but to the painful ones;
- not to consolation, but desolation;
- not to more, but to less;
- not to the highest and dearest, but to the lowest and most despised;
- not to desire for something but to have no desires.
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