"What is brighter than the sun? Yet it disappears. Man is no more than flesh and blood, yet he thinks of doing evil. While the sun surveys the stars in the lofty sky, human beings remain dust and ashes."
Book of Sirach

January 1, 1970

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Sirach 17: 31-32

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