The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults 221A comparison which shows the nature of vainglory.
Open in the readerOur elders admirably describe the nature of this malady as like that of an onion, and of those bulbs which when stripped of one covering you find to be sheathed in another; and as often as you strip them, you find them still protected.