What shall we say to {those} who seek for another world for their possession, and find fault with the bounds of God, as too small for their insatiable cupidity? ... Look also, I pray you, at those who ...attach themselves to transitory things as though they were stable...
(Oration 16:19)
For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...
(Oration 7:20)
...for you must be a man of desires, but they must be those of the spirit.
(Oration 40:40)
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