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12 Quotes for 'Saint Aurelius Augustine' in the Database.
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Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes
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From many to make one.
[Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]
Topic: America
Source: Confessions (bk. IV, 8, 13)
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it
passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
[Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi
per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]
Topic: Corruption
Source: Works (vol. III)
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it
cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the
formula teach me?
Topic: Formula
Source: De Magistro (ch. X, 23)
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God is best known in not knowing him.
[Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]
Topic: God
Source: De Ordine (II, 16)
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Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom.
[Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]
Topic: Heaven
Source: Confessions (bk. IX, 3)
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
[Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]
Topic: Hell
Source: Confessions (bk. XI, ch. XII)
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried
along to dwell in the blood.
[Lat., Anima certe, quia spiritus, in sicco habitare non potest;
ideo in sanguine fertur habitare.]
Topic: Soul
Source: Decretum (IX, 32, 2)
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A child of those tears.
[Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]
Topic: Tears
Source: Confessions (bk. III, 12)
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By-and-by has no end.
[Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]
Topic: Time
Source: Confessions (bk. VIII, 5, 12)
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]
Topic: Vice
Source: Sermon 3--De Ascensione
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
Topic: World
Source: Contra Epist. Parmen. (III, 24)
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This world's a bubble.
Topic: World
Source: Contra Epist. Parmen. (III, 24)
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