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"We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot." — Saint Augustine
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"Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by." — Saint Augustine
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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain" — Saint Augustine
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"Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act." — Saint Augustine
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"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance." — Saint Augustine
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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
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"Punishment is justice for the unjust." — Saint Augustine
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"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
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"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering." — Saint Augustine
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"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?" — Saint Augustine
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"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections." — Saint Augustine
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." — Saint Augustine
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." — Saint Augustine
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"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee." — Saint Augustine
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"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others." — Saint Augustine
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"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences." — Saint Augustine
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"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?" — Saint Augustine
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"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty." — Saint Augustine
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"Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men." — Saint Augustine
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"Love, and do what you like" — Saint Augustine
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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." — Saint Augustine
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