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The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (10.3-10.4)

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For this cause it is not possible for a man to find it,[*] when they bring in human fears, and prefer the pleasures

of the present to the promises of the future.

For they do not know how great torment the pleasures of the present entail, and what is the joy of the promised future.

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