Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

“For every evil is a double thing, and has two harms.”

“Let not your meat be your god.”

“Every living thing loves its own likeness.”

“O Christ, whom the Father has sent as the Light of the world.”

“The first step to salvation is to be able to recognize sin.”

“Night, the parent of fears.”

“God is the source of light.”

“Earth, take thou my body, earth, my body's mother, and cherish it in thy bosom, till I, the soul, returning from God, its author, shall demand it of thee.”

“Gold is a pleasing poison.”

“For shame is the sister of crime.”

“The glory of the martyrs is the glory of the Church.”

“Concord, the parent of all good things.”

“The mind, the mistress of the soul, is shaken.”

“Patience is a tower of strength.”

“Then from the very mouth of the dying, as he poured forth his soul, there flies up a dove, whiter than snow.”

“Cruel is the grief that consumes the living.”

“The soul is stained by the contagion of the body.”

“Sin is a two-fold flame, a single fire, which from the self-same hearth in spirit flies, And with its twofold blast torments the soul.”

“Faith is the mother of all good things.”

“Discord, the mother of wars and of crimes.”