Wherefore we hold that. . .
Wherefore we hold that we ought to introduce only those things which we have described above, and which are adapted to the humble character of our profession and the nature of the climate, that the chief thing about our dress maybe not the novelty of the garb, which might give some offence to men of the world, but its honourable simplicity. ”
― The Twelve Books of John Cassian on the Intitutes of Coenobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principle Faults
