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These 18 prose letters serve as a spiritual autobiography, providing an intimate view of monastic life in Italy during the fifth century. Volume 2 contains letters 23–51.

For the light of wicked men is darkness, their glory is a shadow, their high position is transitory, their head is the devil, and therefore their hair is a dead weight. This is why Scripture says that the hair of that murderer was heavy according to the royal weight, in other words by the weight of the devil. For every wicked man is the kingdom of the devil. Likewise, says Scripture, they that are clothed in soft garments are in the houses of kings,117 that is, the houses of the princes of this air118
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