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A prolific letter writer and teacher, St. Francis de Sales wrote hundreds of letters to those seeking spiritual counsel. Letters to Persons in the World is divided into seven sections: • Letters to Young Ladies • Letters to Married Women • Letters to Widows • Letters to Men of the World • Various Letters • Various Letters Continued • Letters of the Saint about Himself

for honourable company, except to laugh and mock at subjects worthy of respect and reverence. I see that you abound in the goods of the present life; take care that your heart become not attached thereto. Solomon, the wisest of mortals, commenced his unspeakable misery by the pleasure he took in the grandeurs, ornaments and magnificent equipages he had, though all this was according to his quality. Let us consider that all we have makes us really nothing more than the rest of the world, and that
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