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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine To sing is to pray twice.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Truth is not private property.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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