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Letter to the scholastics in Carthage (1st January 1888)
Piety and a delicate conscience [are necessary] before all else. After that, study and the acquisition of knowledge.

Letter to Father Charmetant on the death of his mother (10th January 1882)
I shall pray for her and for you, my dear Son. Tomorrow I shall celebrate Holy Mass for her intentions. Out of respect for your sorrow, I shall not speak of any business matters today. I shall write to you in the next post to tell you of them.

Letter to Father Viven, Superior of the Novitiate in Algiers (1 January 1887)
In a Congregation, in fact, everything depends on the novitiate and the scholasticate, the first for spiritual and interior formation, the second for the acquisition of the knowledge which is necessary and for the consolidation of the resolutions taken right at the beginning.