Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa caritas est animae pulchritudo.
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Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute | Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul. | as translated by H. Browne and J. H. Meyers, The Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers (1995) | Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. | As translated in The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy : Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers (2004) by Gregory Bergman, p. 50.
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