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Misattributed quotes — Augustine of Hippo

354–430

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11 quotes

In necessariis unitas, In dubiis libertas, In omnibus autem caritas.

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There is no greater freedom than the freedom to obey.

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The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.

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The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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I know, but it is no longer I.

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

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When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.

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All truth is God's truth.

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We are born between feces and urine.

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He who sings prays twice.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Augustine of Hippo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.