The Wisdom of St. Augustine

• Every sin is more injury to him who does than to him who suffers it.

• Cursed is every one who places his hope in man.

• The knowledge of Divine things may be properly called wisdom, and the knowledge of human affairs may properly receive the name of knowledge.

• Conscinece and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbours.

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

• As the eye of the body cannot see unless it is helped by the brightness of light, so neither can a man, even if he is most righteous, live righteously unless he be helped by the eternal light of justice.

• It is the duty of good education to arrive at wisdom by means of a difinite order.

• We can know what God is not , but we cannot know what he is .

• Habits if not resisted soon become necessity.

• Falsely praising a person is lying .

• All these things _ the care of the funeral arrangements, the establishment of the place of burial, the pomp of theceremonies_ are more of a solace for the living than an aid for the dead.

• Happiness consists in the attainment of our desire, and in our having only right desires.

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

• As usually happens, the man who has tried a bad doctor is afraid to turst even a good one.