Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.
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Basil the Great
AD 379
“Drink water out of your own cistern,” that is, examine your own resources, do not go to the springs belonging to others, but from your own streams gather for yourself the consolations of life. Do you have metal plates, clothing, beasts of burden, utensils of every kind? Sell them; permit all things to go except your [soul’s] liberty. Homilies on the Psalms (Psalm ).