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The City of God

Saint Augustine

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What this book knows

Two cities—one built on love of self, one on love of God—divide all human history and reveal where true peace lies.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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among her enemies lie hid those who are destined to be fellow-citizens, that she may not think it a fruitless labour to bear what they inflict as enemies
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Virtue is not a goddess but a gift of God; let it be obtained by prayer from Him, by whom alone it can be given
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Let no one look for an efficient cause of the evil will; for it is not efficient, but deficient—defection from that which supremely is
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He is both the maker of all created things, the light by which things are known, and the good in reference to which things are to be done
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Those holy angels come to the knowledge of God not by audible words, but by the presence to their souls of immutable truth, the only-begotten Word of God
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mortality

How much less ought they to insult over the unburied bodies of Christians, to whom it has been promised that the flesh itself shall be restored
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