In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
Though there are very many nations all over the earth,.. There are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities,.. One consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God.. To the City of Man belong the enemies of God,.. So inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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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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He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
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Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
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People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
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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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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Hear the other side.
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Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
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