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Solicitude for material things rends the soul; thus distracted, it divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and thereby kills it.

— Anthony of Padua

Sollicitudo mentem distrahit, distractam dividit, divisam diabolus rapit, et sic animam interficit.

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