Famous Quotes by Saint Augustine

Below are famous quotes by Saint Augustine - Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD).

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Hear the other side.
(Audi Partem Alteram)

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.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

The argument is at an end.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

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