Be Prepared
Balance your sense of justice, subtracting from it any inclination towards vengeance.
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Be on guard against your fearlessness, lest it become an act of recklessness.
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Analyse your firmness, so that it will not be transformed into petrification.
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Illumine your directives, so they will not be converted into tyranny.
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Examine your cleverness, so avoiding your internment within villainy.
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Take care that suffering does not become revolt.
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Control your resentments, to avoid installing them in the sinister house of hatred.
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Keep watch over your frankness, so that your words will not distil poison
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Watch over your enthusiasm, so that it will not constitute thoughtlessness.
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Cultivate your noble zeal, but do not turn it into a dark primer of violence.
XAVIER, Francisco Cândido. Christian Agenda. By the Spirit André Luiz. Great Britain: Allan Kardec Publishing Ltd, 1998. Chapter 34.