Saint Augustine Quotes

“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”

“Attract them by the way you live.”

“In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.”

“The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.”

“Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.”

“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness”

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”

“You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.”

“We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.”

“The measure of love is to love without measuring.”

“Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.”

“When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:The same as you do when you infest the whole world;but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.”

“To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.”

“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”

“Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.”

“It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.”

“You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.”

“The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.”

“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”

“Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.”

“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.”

“If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.”

“What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.”

“Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.”

“Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?”