Saint Augustine Quotes
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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.