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NAM quod semel per escarum abundantiam concretus fuerit in medullis,
necesse est egeri atque ab ipsa naturae lege propelli, quae exuberantiam
cujuslibet umoris superflui velut noxiam sibi atque contrariam in semet
ipsa residere non patitur ideoque rationabili semper et aequali est corpus
nostrum parsimonia castigandum, ut si naturali hac necessitate commorantes
in came omnimodis carere non possumus, saltim rarius nos et non amplius
quamtrina vice ista conluvione respersos totius anni cursus inveniat, quod
tureen sine ullo pruritu quietus egerat sopor, non fallax imago index
occultae voluptatis eliciat.
Wherefore this is the moderate and even allowance and measure of
abstinence, of which we spoke, which has the approval also of the judgment
of the fathers; viz., that daily hunger should go hand in hand with our
daily meals, preserving both body and soul in one and the same condition,
and not allowing the mind either to faint through weariness from fasting,
nor to be oppressed by over-eating, for it ends in such a sparing diet that
sometimes a man neither notices nor remembers in the evening that he has
broken his fast.
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