Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI " But plainly, unrighteous gain is pleasure and pain, toil and fear; and, to speak comprehensively, the passions of the soul, the present of which is delightful, the future vexatious. "For what is the profit," it is said, "if you gain the world and lose the soul? "[212]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Gospel according to Luke: "For what does it profit a man to make a gain of the whole world, but that he should lose himself? "[694]

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