Famous Quotes from ...
Saint Augustine
- 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 {view}
- I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!... Saint Augustine {view}
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.... Saint Augustine {view}
- Did I wish even by stealth to do contrary to Thy law, because by power I could not, so that being a prisoner, I might mimic a maimed liberty by doing with impunity things unpermitted me, a darkened likeness of Thy Omnipotency?... Saint Augustine {view}
- When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.... Saint Augustine {view}
- 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 {view}
- 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 {view}