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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 50: If a Man Rejects the More Expense Garments and Chooses What is Cheap, Whether…
Any one who wishes to suit his own fancy, with a view of pleasing men, is plainly suffering from men-pleasing, and is wandering away from God, and in his very cheapness is indulging in the vice of vaunting.1
Notes
- Cf. F. 21 where ostentatious choosing of the lowest seat is condemned.