Quote #10

Translation: Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

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  1. Nos fecisti ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
  2. I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-dest…
  3. The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
  4. Already I had learned from thee that because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because …
  5. The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - t…
  6. As a youth I prayed, 'Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.'
  7. The violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilat…
  8. Tolle lege, tolle lege

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