50 phrases of Saint Augustine to know a little more about him

Whoever takes goods from the poor is a murderer of charity. Whoever helps them is a virtuoso of justice.

I prefer those who criticize me, because they correct me, to those who praise me, because they corrupt me.

Men are always ready to search and find out about other people’s lives, but it makes them lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

Know yourself, accept yourself, overcome yourself.

The gift of speech was given to men not that they might deceive one another, but that they might express their thoughts to one another.

No one can be perfectly free until everyone is.

If man knew the advantages of being good, he would be a good man out of selfishness.

The world is a book, and whoever sits at home reads only one page.

Pride is not grandeur, but swelling. And what is swollen looks big, but it is not healthy.

The soul only feeds on what brings it joy.