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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Abstinence
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Adversity
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Age
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Beauty
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Belief
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Bravery
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Charity
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Creation
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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Desires
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Duty
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Experience
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Faith
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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Forgiveness
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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 of Hippo
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Freedom
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Friends
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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God
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Grace
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Bartlett's 15th edition notes This is considered the most important definition of the relation of grace to free will in the Middle Ages.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Libero Arbitrio, 388-395
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Growth
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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 of Hippo
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Habits
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Happiness
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Hazing
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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
on the eversores (translation: Overturners) who bedeviled new students at Cartage in the 4th Century. Confessions
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Honesty
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Books by and about Saint Augustine of Hippo