- Saint | 354 - 430
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Saint Augustine
GoodLiveSeekWellHighest
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
ExperienceWordsYouGoThrough
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
HappinessManHappyBe HappyWishes
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
GoodBeginningEvilFirstConfession
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
HeartHumilitySomethingWhich
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
PerfectModerationEasierThanMany
Love, and do what you like.
LoveYouLike
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
ForgivenessLostBeingBeenAgain
This world's a bubble.
WorldBubble
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
LadderSameVicesOurOurselves
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
HeartQuietUsThyselfOurCreated
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
VisionLightExperienceMindFind
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