“But the luxurious say: Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes. For they anoint themselves with perfumes, who seek the pleasure of bodily fragrance. Yet those perfumes are accustomed to stir up the allure of lust. There is a different perfume of sobriety, about which the Church says to her spouse: Your nam…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On Elijah and Fasting, PL 14.10.36
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7Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:
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5For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.
6Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.
— Wisdom of Solomon 2:7 —
8Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:
9Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.