Capitolo 54
philosophers of old man of whoever that Jerome tells us in the his/her according to book
against Jovinianus.
"Through the senses", it says Jerome, "as through so a lot of windows, face
vices win entry to the soul. The metropolis and citadel of the
it lies you/he/she cannot be taken unless the army of the enemy has dressed again wicker in before
through the gates. If some that one please him in the games of the circus,
in the disputes of athletes, in the versatility of actors in the
the beauty of women, in the shine of gems and raiment or in aught
these like other, then the liberty of its soul is done imprisoned
through the windows of his/her eyes, and so you/he/she has carried out the
prophecy: ` For death you/he/she has come above in our windows (Jer. ix, 21).
And then, when the wedges of doubt have, as are, is driven
in the citadels of our minds through these entries, where he/she wants
is its liberty? where his/her moral courage? where his/her thought of God? More
of the whole sense of varnish of touch ago for him the portraits of
the past ecstasies, forcing the soul to affectionately indulge on he/she remembered
inequity, and so to practise in imagination those things that
reality denies to him.
"Keeping in mind of such suggestion, therefore many among the philosophers
forsook the ways that crowd of the cities and the pleasant gardens
of the country, with their fields well-sprinkled them shady
trees, the song of birds, the mirror of the fountain the murmur of
the brook, the many charms for eye and ear, fearing so that not them
souls should grow you release between luxury and the abundance of wealth, and
so that not the their virtue should be with this defiled. For him it is dangerous to
often turn Your eyes to those things from what you are able some day both
done imprisoned, or to try the possession of that that is able
goes very hard with you to do to less. This way the Pythagoreans avoided everybody
company of some kind, and it was accustomed to indulge in solitary and
places of desert. No, same Plato, even if him pits a rich man, impediment