858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

From Latin: 'Inside man lives the truth.'

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.

For what is the self complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit, you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child? Who would not choose to die?

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

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