“The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as served it.”
The World
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIV - The Life of the World to Come
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Port-Royal (1752), as cited by M. A. Screech in Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1997), p. 69

“God's commandment is that those who serve Him must separate themselves from the world.”
Source: Separation from the World, p. 4

As quoted in Woman Through the Ages;; (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Jewish Problem

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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I