Letter 79: You seem unable to follow the common sense of the matter.
One would sooner cease groaning over the sea than over the wickedness of men. The doctrines of piety and evil habits are recognized as being at war with each other, yet many profess the former while practicing the latter, as though belief and behavior occupied separate chambers of the soul.
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Latin / Greek Original
ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝΙΩ
Τάχιον ἂν τῆς θαλάσσης παύσαιτό τις στένων,
ΡΜϚ΄. – ΕΥΑΓΡΙΩ
Εὐσεβείας δόγματα καὶ κακοὺς ἤθη ἠγνόηται εἶναι.
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