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Abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Anger is, along with courage, the daughter of hope... hope is thus anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Beauty is the cause of pleasure and not identical with it.

Belief is an act done not because of irrationality, but in spite of absurdity.

The Body is that which exist to serve the mind, which in turn should serve God. The body is precisely what the Christian must overcome. Its value lay in its capacity for suffering which can lead the wayward spirit back to God.

Confession is not speaking to justify or self-defend oneself, it rather means speaking before God, revealing oneself in ones bareness.

Confession is the only speech-act not performatively incoherent in the mode of the lie, and so confession is the ideal type of truthful speech.

Courage is, along with anger, the daughter of hope. Hope is thus anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Curiosity is a vice, and problematic because it distracted man from his proper sacred concerns.

Eupatheia is a feeling resulting from correct judgement in the same way as the passions result from incorrect judgment.

Evil is a lack of good, thus not a thing or entity created by God, but the absence or perversion of good.