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Our heart is restless until it rests in you.

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Topic

Seeking God God and man

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Topic

Chastity Sexual morality Self-control Sex

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Latin

Time

398 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 8, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 8, ch. 7.

A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.

St. Augustine

City of God

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Topic

Nation Community

Author

St. Augustine

Source

City of God

Genre

Philosophical literature Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

426 420s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. De civitate Dei contra paganos [On the City of God Against the Pagans]. c. 426, bk. 19, sect. 24.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. City of God, translated by Henry Bettenson. Penguin Classics, 2004, bk. 19, sect. 24.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Topic

Original sin Human nature Children

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 1, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 1, ch. 7.

Hear the other side.

St. Augustine

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Topic

Tolerance Listening Goodwill

Author

St. Augustine

Source

On Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans

Genre

Philosophical literature Religious literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

391 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

St. Augustine of Hippo. De Duabus Animabus Contra Manichaeos. [Concerning Two Souls, Against the Manichaeans.] 391 AD.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

Saint Anselm

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Topic

Nature of God God

Author

Saint Anselm

Language

Latin

Time

1078 1070s 11th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Original Citation

Saint Anselm. Proslogium [Proslogion]. c. 1078, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Saint Anselm. "Proslogion." Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, edited by Brian Davies and G. R. Evans. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 3.

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you.

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Topic

Loving God God and man Religious conversion

Author

St. Augustine

Source

Confessions

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 10, ch. 27.

Current Citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 10, ch. 27.

A law that is not just does not seem to me to be a law.

St. Augustine

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Topic

Unjust laws Law

Author

St. Augustine

Source

On Free Choice of the Will

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

389 380s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Augustine. De libero arbitrio voluntatis [On Free Choice of the Will]. c. 389, 1.5.11.33.

Current Citation

Augustine. "On the Free Choice of the Will." Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings, edited by Peter King. Cambridge University Press, 2010, 1.5.11.33.