Capitolo 71
you/he/she was planning, not to poison indeed me, but to cut my throat with a
sword. Also to the present time I sustain face to face with this
danger, fearing the sword that threatens my neck so that I am able
you draw free hardly a breath among a meal and the next one. Also this way
we read of him who, while calculating the power and pile up-on wealth of
the tyrant Dionysius as a great benediction, secretly saw the sword
hanging from a hair above of his/her head, and so learned that kind of
happiness comes as the result of the worldly power (Cicer. 5, Tusc.)
This way it did me I also learn from continuous experience, me who had been excited
from the condition of a poor monk to the dignity of an abbot that
my wretchedness increased with my wealth; and I am able that the
it is probable that the ambition of those that you/they voluntarily look for such to be able is kept to brake
from my example.
And now, the dearrest brother in Christ and more comrade next to me in
the intimacy of discourse, should be enough for Your pains and the
works that you have borne that I have written this history of mine really
adversities among which I have almost gotten tired from the crib. For
then, as I told the beginning of this letter, you come
you consider Your tribulation nothing, or in every case as small, in
comparison with mine, and so it is able you it bears more slightly it in
you measure as you concern him/it as less. Ever takes comforts in the motto
of Our God, that of which he guessed for his/her followers for cause the
followers of the devil: "If theirs has persecuted me, they also wants
Pursues her (John the xv, 20). If the hate of world You, yes know that it
it hated me before it hated Him. If yes were of the world the world,
it would love his really" (the ib. 18-19). And it says the apostle: "Everybody that
he/she will live devoted in Christ Jesus it will suffer from persecution" (II Tim.
iii, 12). And elsewhere he says: "I don't look for to please men. For
if I still arranged men, I should not be the servant of Christ"
(Galat. the, 10). And it says the Psalmist: "Yours who are arranging