In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINESince love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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