Tolle lege, tolle lege

As a youth I prayed, 'Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.'

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for …

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 it is uttered with s…