Nilus of Ancyra→Proclus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Proclus the Monk.
You say that you grieve immoderately and are downcast, because you do not have wealth to scatter abroad to every person in need. But I say that such a commandment is in no way demanded of one who has no money. And of these things I urge you to make a scattering and a casting-off cheerfully; and these are: anger, contentiousness, envy, contradiction, frivolity, agitation, boasting, garrulousness, bitterness, rashness [running on ahead], meddlesomeness, and insubordination.
You say that you grieve immoderately and are downcast, because you do not have wealth to scatter abroad to every person in need. But I say that such a commandment is in no way demanded of one who has no money. And of these things I urge you to make a scattering and a casting-off cheerfully; and these are: anger, contentiousness, envy, contradiction, frivolity, agitation, boasting, garrulousness, bitterness, rashness [running on ahead], meddlesomeness, and insubordination.
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