Foundation Of Virtues

Humility is the good and solid foundation of virtues; should it waver, the whole house of virtues collapses.

-- Guigo de Ponte, also known as Guigues du Pont, Carthusian monk of the Grande Chartreuse, De vita contemplativa (13th Century), as translated by Dennis D. Martin, in Carthusian Spirituality: The Writings of Hugh of Balma and Guigo de Ponte, (New York: Paulist Press, 1997), p. 197