He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Draws the soul away gladly from the body, even if it wrench itself away in its removal. "For he that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall find it".
And abstinence from vicious acts is found, somehow,
