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"Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."

- John Cassian, Institutes

“Even though knowledge is true, it is still not fully established if unaccompanied by works. For everything is established by being put into practice.”