Augustine of Hippo, on Sir 10:9

“But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth and ashes proud?”

“"No one knows the things of a person except the spirit of man which is in him." And yet, there is something of a person that "the spirit … in him" does not know. But you, Lord, who made him, you fully know him. I indeed, though in your sight I despise myself and consider "myself but dust and ashes"—I still know something concerning you that I do not know about myself. Most assuredly, "we see through a glass dimly," "not yet face to face." As long as I am absent from you, I am more present with myself than with you.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.