4th-century Philosopher Quotes

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Augustine of Hippo

To separate the body from the soul is the privilege of only of the One who has joined them together. But to separate the soul from the body lies as well in the power of the man who pursues virtue. For our Fathers gave to the meditation of death and to the flight from the body a spiritual name: anachoresis [withdrawal].

Evagrius Ponticus