Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Quote by Saint Augustine

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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.

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.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are...

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are...

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...

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which...

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which...

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness...

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness...

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...

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is...

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is...

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil...

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil...

Hear the other side.

Hear the other side.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of...

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of...

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the...

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the...

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but...

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but...

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...