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Saint Augustine
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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." -
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Saint Augustine
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Top 5 quotes from Saint Augustine
"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."
"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."
"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."
"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father."
"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."
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"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."
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