“Then the provident guide of the soul has regard to this, that he may circumscribe her pleasures and cut off her desires, that she may not delight herself in them. That father's corrections are profitable, who spares not the rod, that he may render his son's soul obedient to salutary precepts. For he visits with a rod,…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letters 61-70
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24He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
— Proverbs 13:24 —
25The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.