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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.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Saint Augustine
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.
Saint Augustine
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.
Saint Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
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