“The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.”

— John Calvin

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Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

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French Protestant reformer 1509–1564

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