these things must not lead us astray

“The eye is attracted by beautiful objects, by gold and silver and all such things. . . . But our ambition to obtain all these things must not lead us astray from you, O Lord, nor must we depart from what your law allows.”

—Saint Augustine (354-430), Confessions; translated from the Latin by R.S. Pine-Coffin, 1961.

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