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Augustine of Hippo (/?????st?n/ or /?????st?n/; Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin, or Blessed Augustine, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius (modern-day Annaba, Algeria), located in Numidia (Roman province of Africa). He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are The City of God and Confessions.

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th ...

He that is jealous is not in love.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s ...

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell ...

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

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.