St. Augustine Quotes

• Give me chastity and continency -- but not yet!
  (Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo.)
  -- Confessions, Book VIII, Chapter 7
  
  
• Hear the other side.
  (Audi partem alteram.)
  -- De Duabus Animabus, XlV ii
  
  
• Love and do what you will.
  (Dilige et quod vis fac.)
  -- In Epist. Joann. Tractatus, vii, 8
  
  
• Rome has spoken; the case is concluded
  (Roma locuta est; causa finita est.)
  -- Sermons, Book I
  
  
• Take up and read, take up and read.
  (Tolle lege, tolle lege.)
  -- Confessions, Book VIII, Chapter 12
  
  
• The verdict of the world is conclusive.
  (Securus iudicat orbis terrarum.)
  -- Contra Epist. Parmen., iii 24
  
  
• There is no salvation outside the church.
  (Salus extra ecclesiam non est.)
  -- De Bapt. IV, cxvii.24
  
  
• To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
  (Multi quidem facilius se abstinent ut non utantur, quam temperent ut bene utantur.)
  -- On the Good of Marriage
  
  
• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
  -- iii. De Ascensione
  
  
• With love for mankind and hatred of sins.
  (Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum.)
  -- Opera Omnia, vol II. col. 962, letter 211.
  
  

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