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"You can catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a barrel of vinegar." The best known maxim of St. Francis de Sales is one among many pithy expressions he used to convey fundamental values or principles of conduct. The seventeenth century loved maxims. Brother Lawrence used them in his Practice of the Presence of God. The Duc de la Rochefoucauld used them to express his cynical view of human character. The maxims on gentlemanly behavior from the Jesuit college of La Fleche, widely circulated in the 1600s, were carefully copied in an English version by a schoolboy named George Washington.

Father Jean-Pierre Médaille (1610–1669), the Jesuit founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph, wrote the 100 maxims for the early sisters, which, he said, "are the spirit of your little Institute." They are taken for the most part, whether literally or in the same spirit, from the Summary of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus. These maxims, if read as a task to be achieved, are daunting at best, and at worst, absurd. They speak the language of lovers. They present a picture of life that is essentially mystery. They speak from the abyss of a union with God and God's love for the world that transforms one’s life and one’s deepest self. They invite a person who longs for meaning to enter the search. They reveal a vocation that is at its heart mystical.

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