Quote #62
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Augustine of Hippo
- God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
- He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue…
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.