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We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.

— John Chrysostom

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Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved.

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it in church with silk vestments while outside it is naked and numb with cold.

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