====== Crates of Thebes | Gregory Nazianzen, Oration 43 ======


<blockquote>Such being [Basil's] mind, and such his life, he had no need of an altar and of vainglory, nor of such a public announcement as "**Crates sets Crates the Theban** free." For his aim was ever to be, not to seem, most excellent. Nor did he dwell in a tub, and in the midst of the market-place, and so by luxuriating in publicity turn his poverty into riches: but was poor and unkempt, yet without ostentation: and taking cheerfully the casting overboard of all that he ever had, sailed lightly across the sea of life.
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Translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 7. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1894.)\\
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