"You fast, and Satan doesn't eat at all. You stay awake at night, and Satan never sleeps. You overcome the passions of the body, but Satan has no body. You read the Holy Scriptures, and Satan knows them by heart. You perform good deeds, but Satan also does them if it's necessary to deceive someone. Only through love and obedience can you be better than Satan, for he doesn't know how to love and cannot be obedient."
Saint Moses the Ethiopian
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