“If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.”
“But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?”
“If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]”
“Philosophy is the true mother of science.”
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