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- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD), Confessions
- ...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD), The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909–14, p.1)
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