I have decided that there is nothing I should avoid so much as marriage.
Influential Christian theologian
I have decided that there is nothing I should avoid so much as marriage.
Influential Christian theologian
Letter to his friend Alypius, reflecting his early post-conversion ascetic views
c. 386-387 AD
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