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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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There is no possible source of evil except good. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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