Quote #94
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Augustine of Hippo
- There is no possible source of evil except good.
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- The purpose of all wars, is peace.
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain