This Life & The Other
"You will often be amongst the children of this world, who, according to their custom, will laugh at all they see or think they see in you contrary to their miserable inclinations. Do not busy yourself with disputing with them, show no sort of sadness under their attacks; but joyously laugh at their laughter, despise their contempt, smile at their remonstrances, gracefully mock at their mockeries; and not giving attention to all this, walk always gaily in the service of God; and in time of prayer, commend these poor souls to the Divine Mercy. They are worthy of compassion in having no desire for honourable company, except to laugh and mock at subjects worthy of respect and reverence."
"I see that you abound in the goods of the present life; take care that your heart become not attached thereto... Let us consider that all we have makes us really nothing more than the rest of the world, and that all this is nothing before Angels and God."
Quotations from St. Francis de Sales