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According to the great Jesuit monk Anthony Demayle, there are three intellectual feats

that we struggle with on a regular basis that are harder than just about any physical

activity on the planet.

Just three, they are, he said, in this order, returning love for hate, including the excluded,

admitting you are wrong.

This is not a modern affliction.

Demayle, while certainly observing the worlds he was trying to serve, was also tapping

in to an ancient idea with which the Stoics would have wholly agreed.

Three more quotes.

If you must be affected by other people's misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt,

drop this readiness to hate.

That's epic Titus.

No school has more goodness and gentleness.

None has more love for human beings.

We're more attention to the common good.

The goal which it assigns to us is to be useful to help others and to take care not only

of ourselves, but of everyone in general and of each one in particular.

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