Apophthegmata Concerning Abba Macarius the Egyptian. Abba Macarius related concerning himself, saying: When I was younger and was sitting in a cell in

 You cannot as we do, sit in your cell, and weep for your sins and I asked them: When it becomes winter, do you not shiver? and when it becomes hot, a

 from much labor. When evening came, Abba Anthony soaked palm leaves for himself and Abba Macarius says 34.244 to him, Give the word, that I also may

 they would give to him but the elder received it with joy, in order to torment himself but the disciple, knowing the matter, said to the brothers: F

 Abba Macarius: If scorn has become to you as praise, and poverty as wealth, and want as abundance, you will not die. For it is impossible for one who

 of a matter that benefits them, they compel themselves to begin to speak but if they are not compelled by the brethren, they no longer speak the word

 of them. And rising after the week, I went to them to see how they were sitting and when I knocked they opened, and they greeted me in silence and h

 little figs and as they were running, one of them fell, and having taken it, I ate it and whenever I remember it, I sit weeping. Abba Macarius said

 Macarius flee men sit in your cell, and weep for your sins, and do not love the talk of men and you will be saved.

Macarius; flee men; sit in your cell, and weep for your sins, and do not love the talk of men; and you will be saved.

Μακάριος· φεῦγε τοὺς ἀνθρώπους· κάθισον εἰς τὸ κελλίον σου, καὶ κλαῦσον τὰς ἁμαρτίας σου, καὶ μὴ ἀγαπήσῃς λαλιὰν ἀνθρώπων· καὶ σώζῃ.