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Quotes by Augustine

I have more pity for a person who rejoices in wickedness than for a person who has the feeling of having suffered hard knocks by being deprived of a pernicious pleasure.

 — Augustine in Confessions

The blindness of humanity is so great that people are actually proud of their blindness

 — Augustine in Confessions

the punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder

 — Augustine in Confessions

For it is one thing to see the land of peace from a wooded ridge ... and another to tread the road that leads to it.

 — Augustine in Confessions

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

 — Augustine in Tractate 29 on John 7.14-18

In the absence of true justice, what is a government's sovereignty but organized robbery?

 — Augustine

To the divine providence it has seemed good to prepare in the world to come for the righteous good things, which the unrighteous shall not enjoy; and for the wicked evil things, by which the good shall not be tormented. But as for the good things of this life, and its ills, God has willed that these should be common to both; that we might not too eagerly covet the things which wicked men are seen equally to enjoy, nor shrink with an unseemly fear from the ills which even good men often suffer.

 — Augustine in City of God