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What can be more grievous than hell? Yet nothing is more profitable than the fear of it; for the fear of hell will bring us the crown of the kingdom. Where fear is, there is no envy; where fear is, the love of money does not disturb; where fear is, wrath is quenched, evil concupiscence is repressed, and every unreasonable passion is exterminated.

— 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.

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.

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