"Humility is the good and solid foundation of virtues; should it waver, the whole house of virtues collapses."
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De vita contemplativa, as translated by Dennis D. Martin, in Carthusian Spirituality: The Writings of Hugh of Balma and Guigo de Ponte, (New York: Paulist Press, 1997), p. 197
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Guigo de Ponte
Guigo de Ponte, also known as Guigues du Pont, was a Carthusian monk of the Grande Chartreuse.
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