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Wisdom of Sirach 10:9

Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one sets his own soul to sale; because while he lives he casts away his bowels.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

"No one knows the things of a person except the spirit of man which is in him." And yet, there is something of a person that "the spirit " in him" does not know. But you, Lord, who made him, you fully know him. I indeed, though in your sight I despise myself and consider "myself but dust and ashes""I still know something concerning you that I do not know about myself. Most assuredly, "we see through a glass dimly," "not yet face to face." As long as I am absent from you, I am more present with myself than with you.

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