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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself? (Saint Augustine Quotes)
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will (Saint Augustine Quotes)
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it’s height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state (Saint Augustine Quotes)
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open (Saint Augustine Quotes)
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor (Saint Augustine Quotes)
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame (Saint Augustine Quotes)
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless (Saint Augustine Quotes)
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit (Saint Augustine Quotes)
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity (Saint Augustine Quotes)
You don’t love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers (Saint Augustine Quotes)
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow (Saint Augustine Quotes)
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove’s and not the ravens (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy (Saint Augustine Quotes)
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud (Saint Augustine Quotes)
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted (Saint Augustine Quotes)
What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity (Saint Augustine Quotes)
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity (Saint Augustine Quotes)
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars (Saint Augustine Quotes)
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder (Saint Augustine Quotes)