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.”

“For shame is the sister of crime.”

“God is the source of light.”

“Faith is the mother of all good things.”

“Patience is a tower of strength.”

“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.”

“Night, the parent of fears.”

“Cruel is the grief that consumes the living.”

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

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

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

“Concord, the parent of all good things.”

“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.”

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

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