Quote #31
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Augustine of Hippo
- He who sings prays twice. (Qui cantat, bis orat)
- He who created you without you will not justify you without you.
- Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.
- You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
- We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
- Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether for…
- Charity is the root of all good works.
- So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.