Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
Saint AugustineMen are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
Saint AugustineThe mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?
Saint Augustine