For that which I do I know not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
AD 320
And hold out his hand to one who is about to follow? But how can one practise what he teaches, unless he is like him whom he teaches? For if he be subject to no passion, a man may thus answer him who is the teacher: It is my wish not to sin, but I am overpowered; for I am clothed with frail and weak flesh: it is this which covets, which is angry, which fears pain and death. And thus I am led on against my will;
