Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II " Now pride and luxury make men waverers (or raise them aloft) from the truth; and the voluptuousness, which indulges in superfluities, leads away from the truth. Wherefore He says very beautifully, "And all these things do the nations of the world seek after."[224] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV " "But seek first the kingdom of heaven, and its righteousness," for these are the great things, and the things which are small and appertain to this life "shall be added to you."[44] Tertullian On Prayer necessary for believers; for "all other things the nations seek after."[43]