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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''


St. Aurelius 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.
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ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The greatest evil is physical pain.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
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SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE From many to make one. [Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive. [Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
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MARCUS AURELIUS The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...
MARCUS AURELIUS Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anger cannot be dishonest.
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