...Ought to be on our guard day and night

[Lucretius]

In this life there is nothing certain: we are in a continual warfare, and, therefore, ought to be on our guard day and night. We sail in a tempestuous sea that threatens us on every side, and in a poor leaky vessel: the devil, who aims at nothing less than our destruction, never ceases to increase the storm, to overwhelm us thereby, if he can; hence it was that the Apostle gave this precaution, even to the virtuous: ‘Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall’ (1 Cor. x.12).

Saint Jerome, Epistle to Saint Eustochium

I’m not sure someone like me, who grew up in luxury, is strong enough to live like this.

Christi pax,

Lucretius