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Things Quotes by Saint Augustine
- The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
- Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
- Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books…
- If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
- It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to…
- For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will…
- The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not…
- Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
- Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they…
- Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
- God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
- Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not…
- I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn…
- A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
- I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then…
- Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people…
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
- All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure…
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle