Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it.

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.