"Father Makar [Macarius] said to the young brother Zak’arē [Zacharaeus]: ‘What is the task of the solitary?’ And Zak’arē said: ‘To give thanks for temptations and to be silent.’ [in hêsychia]"

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p. 102, Armenian sayings no. 23 (translated by Robert W. Thomson from the Armenian Paterica: Vark’ srboc’ Haranc’, 2 vols., Mechitarist Press, Venice, 1855.)