Nilus of Ancyra→Marinus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Marinus the Deacon.
What have you to do with mortal men, who can neither render any recompense for a life well lived, nor often keep the soul's faculties of judgment in sound health, but, being mastered by envy, slander rather than praise the things that have been well done? Accustom yourself, then, to look upward, with the eye of the mind. For the theater above brings forth verdicts that are pure and true and that show no partiality. So then, resolve to delight that theater with the delightfulness of good deeds, and from there draw the blessed praises, O lover of mankind.
What have you to do with mortal men, who can neither render any recompense for a life well lived, nor often keep the soul's faculties of judgment in sound health, but, being mastered by envy, slander rather than praise the things that have been well done? Accustom yourself, then, to look upward, with the eye of the mind. For the theater above brings forth verdicts that are pure and true and that show no partiality. So then, resolve to delight that theater with the delightfulness of good deeds, and from there draw the blessed praises, O lover of mankind.
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