Saint Augustine

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"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."	Time
"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."	Economics, Change
"Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice."	Justice
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."	Miscellaneous
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."	Faith, Lies, Military
"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father."	Miscellaneous
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."	Age, Books, Reading
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."	Happiness, Hope, Joy
"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."	Change, Evil, Life
"O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen."	Death, Generosity, Life
"Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all."	Religion
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."	Love
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."	Knowledge, Patience, Wisdom
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."	Men, Violence
"Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace."	Accomplishment, Achievement
"Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me."	Forgiveness
"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."	Evil, Good, Honesty
"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness."	Art, Happiness, Joy
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."	Ambition, Darkness, Desires
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."	Comedy, Help
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Beauty	Books	Change
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Help	Honesty	Hope
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