Letter 1,2 - to Justin, praetor of Sicily. September 590
"Let no bribes draw you to injustice and let no one's threats or friendship deflect you from the path of righteousness. Look how brief life is, contemplate before what judge you are going to appear, and how soon, you who exercise juridical power. And so one should consider carefully that we leave all of our riches here, and only carry for Judgement examples of riches distributed by us. We should, therefore, seek those rewards which death can in no way remove, but which in the end of this present life can show to be about to last forever."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 119.
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