"For a brief space conceive yourself to be transported to one of the loftiest peaks of some inaccessible mountain, thence gaze on the appearances of things lying below you, and with eyes turned in various directions look upon the eddies of the billowy world, while you yourself are removed from earthly contacts—you will at once begin to feel compassion for the world, and with self-recollection and increasing gratitude to God, you will rejoice with all the greater joy that you have escaped it."
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Saint Cyprian of Carthage, Epistle 1 to Donatus, Section 5, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5.
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