For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
"They are corrupt, they do abominable things, no one does what is right." Listen to these corrupt people. They in fact "have spoken among themselves, reasoning unsoundly." Corruption begins with bad faith. From there it passes to depraved habits, later leading to the most violent injustice. This is, in general, the ladder one climbs. What, then, did they say among themselves, thinking badly, "our life is short and sorrowful"? From this mistaken conviction proceeds what the apostle also spoke of: "Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we die." But in the book of Wisdom this wantonness is described more thoroughly: "Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. Let us leave signs of our enjoyment." And after this more thorough description of wantonness, what do we read? "Let us kill the poor, just person," which is as much as to say, "God does not exist."
