Letter 3004: There is a temptation that affects good people more than bad ones: the desire for human praise when doing good works.
AD BONIFACIUM EPISCOPUE.
Vitandum in operibus bonis humane laudis
desiderium.
Gregorius Bonifacio episeopo *® Regiens].
B Quibusdam veniealibus agnovi fralernitatem tnam
misericordize operibus vehementer insislere; alque
omnipotenti Deo gralias retuli, quia juxta egregii
pra:dicatoris vocem, nunc vivimas, $i yos Statis in
Domino (I Thess. m, 8). Sed illud, fateor, non I&-
viter mentem meam momordit, qttod eadem opera
maliis vosipsi nuntiatis ; ex qna re collegi qrod mens
vestra non $tudeat Dei oculis, 8ed hamanoe judicie
placere. Unde necesse est, frater charissime, ut cum
bona exterius agis, h&@c interius cum magna cautela
custodias, pe appelitus placendi hominibus subrepat,
et omnis labor boni operis incassum fiat. Nos enim
qui sumus, quibus placeri ab hominibus queritur ?
Quid namque aliud quam pulvis et cinis sa@mus? Sed
illi tua ſraternitas placere desideret, qui et non longe
C est ut appareat, et omne quod” reiribuerit finem
nullo modo habebit. > Mense Octobriz indictione un-
decima.
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