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NILUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR: SENTENTIOUS CHAPTERS OR PRECEPTS.

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The beginning of salvation is the accusation of oneself.
It is better to throw a stone rashly than a word.
Do to all as you wish all to do to you.
Practice justice more by work than by word.
A pious man is not he who has pity on many, but he who does not injure anyone.
It is better to live lying on the ground, and to be of good mind, than to be perturbed on a golden bed.
That friend is sweet who feeds the soul.
Praise God with words, worship with works, and honor with thought.
Intelligence, life, and integrity of manners make a priest.
It is the worst thing to be a slave to all base deeds.
Teach virtue by word, but declare it by work.
Do not think it excellent to have virtue, but to use it as it ought to be used.
Honoring the law, you will live according to the law.
He is a guest who finds worldly things sordid.
The envious man punishes himself; for he who speaks against another, is unknowingly affected by evils himself.
Neither flatter the rich, nor irritate them.
Wine strengthens the body, but the word of God the soul.
Use foods not that are sweet, but that are healthful.
If you try to please the crowd, you may become like the crowd.
Above all, mortify your body.
He is industrious to whom time does not remain for idleness.
Do not accept the form of a Christian man only, but rather the prudence of the soul.
To transfer blame to God, who is not to be blamed, is a sin.
Great is the danger of the ears and the tongue.
† For thus we read it, that it may be the dative katharo pure, so that it may agree with the other martyrio testimony.

Have the fear and desire of God, and use a pure testimony of conscience regarding all.
Consider that God himself is always present in all that you do.
Flee praise, and beware of reproach.
Rejoice when you practice virtue; but do not be puffed up, lest a shipwreck happen in the harbor.
The more you progress in the law, the more you will understand that you are absent from perfection.