God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
Saint AugustineIf a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Saint AugustineFor a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
Saint AugustineAn apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
Saint Augustine