Letter 528
To Eurycles the Patrician.
It was aptly said concerning Your Excellency: "These two things I have hated: an old man who is an adulterer, and a rich man who is a liar." [Sirach 25:2] "Why is earth and ashes proud? For he is destined to inherit miseries, and rottenness, and worms." [cf. Sirach 10:9] If, then, you have grown old in absurdities, and lies, and deceits, and have been worn away, sated with evil days, know yourself.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἐπιτετευμένως ἐῤῥέθη περὶ τῆς σῆς ἐνδοξότητος· Δύο ταῦτα ἐμίσησα, γέροντα μοιχόν, καὶ πλούσιον ψεύστην. « Διὰ τί ὑπερηφανεύεται γῇ καὶ σποδός; Μέλλει γὰρ κληρονομεῖν ταλαιπωρίας, καὶ σηπεδόνας καὶ σκώληκας. Εἰ οὖν κατεγήρασας ἐν ἀτοπίαις, καὶ ψεύδεσι, καὶ δόλοις, καὶ κατεδαπανήθης χορτασθὴς ἡμερῶν κακῶν, γνῶθι σαυτόν.
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