Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Quote by Saint Augustine

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose...

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose...

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be...

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be...

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the...

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the...

The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken...

The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken...

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Love, and do what you like.

Love, and do what you like.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves...

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves...

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests...

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests...

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose...

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose...

He that is jealous is not in love.

He that is jealous is not in love.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce...

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce...

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of...

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of...

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be...

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be...

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled...

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled...