In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

— Saint Augustine

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

— Saint Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

— Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

— Saint Augustine

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

— Saint Augustine

Love and do what you like.

— Saint Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul.

— Saint Augustine

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

— Saint Augustine

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

— Saint Augustine

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

— Saint Augustine