A quotation from Basil of Caesarea:
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You seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred your own enjoyment to the consolation of the many? For the more you abound in wealth, the more you lack in love.
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https://wist.info/basil-of-caesarea/70072/
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"To the Rich [Ὁμιλία πρὸς τοὺς πλουτούντας]," sermon (c. 368) [tr. Schroeder (2009)] - Basil of Caesarea | WIST Quotations
You seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred your own enjoyment to the consolation of the many? For the more you abound in wealth, the more you lack in love. [ἀλλὰ μὴν φαίνῃ ἔχων κτήματα πολλά. Πόθεν ταῦτα; ἢ δῆλον ὅτι τὴν…