"The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god."

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The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to demons, thither let them continue to resort on the day of the Saint to whom the Church is dedicated, and slay their beasts, no longer as a sacrifice to demons, but for a social meal in honour of Him whom they now worship.

— Pope Gregory I