Facts about Saint Aurelius Augustine

"God is best known in not knowing him"

"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty"

"This world's a bubble"

"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive"

"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt"

"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood"

"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted"

"The verdict of the world is conclusive"

"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood"

"The purpose of all war is peace"

"He who labours, prays"

"Custom is second nature"

"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires"

"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot"

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"