And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
No effort, no crown! Today there are people who place the widow above the virgin in terms of selfcontrol, because the widow has rejected a pleasure which she once enjoyed. –.