If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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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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He that is jealous is not in love.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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