In this way, he warned that “pride is a powerful poison: just one drop is enough to ruin an entire life marked by good.”
“A person may have done countless good deeds, may have earned praise and praise, but if he has done all this only for himself, to exalt himself, can he be considered a virtuous person? No,” asserted the Pontiff.
Pope Francis also noted that “good is not only an end, but also a path. Good requires a lot of discretion, a lot of kindness. Above all, good needs to get rid of that sometimes too dominant presence that is our ego.”