St. Theophanus The Recluse. (№ 266925)

What passion is not painful? Anger burns; envy dry; relaxes the lust; greed to eat and not sleep; the offended pride murderously eaten heart; and every other passion: hatred, jealousy, selfish ambition, chelovekov, addicted to things and people - his giving us the torment; so that to live in the same passions that go knives or wholly bare feet or be in the position of a man whose serpents suck heart. And again, who have no passions? Everyone has. As long as there is pride, all the passions have, for it is the mother of the passions and their daughters does not happen.