The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
タグ: philosophy, simple, wise, life

"John Chrysostom"の他の名言

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
タグ: soul, great, sea, work
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
タグ: divine, reason, human, poor
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
タグ: more, nothing, enemy, wealth
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
タグ: human-nature, who, men, nature
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
タグ: cannibalism, slander, worse, than
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