“If you are given to avarice, think often of the folly of this sin, which makes us the slave of what was made only to serve us; remember how when we die we must leave all we possess to those who come after us, who may squander it, ruin their own souls b misusing it, and so forth.”
Source: St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.
