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Philosophical Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
- He that is jealous is not in love.
- Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
- Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
- Punishment is justice for the unjust.
- Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
More Philosophical Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle