Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

Quotidie morimur, quotidie commutamur, et tamen aternos nos esse credimus.

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Letter 60; Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight.

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