- 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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