St Augustine Quotes

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

He that is jealous is not in love.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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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