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Augustine of Hippo

Quote of Augustine of Hippo - Love, and do what you will....


Biography - Augustine of Hippo:

Christian theologian and philosopher.
Born: 354 - Died: 430
Period:
5th century
4th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Note 

Note



Latin: Dilige et quod vis fac


Quote source: Homilies on the First Epistle of John


Love, and do what you will.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German, Latin, Italian)



French
Aime et fais ce que tu veux.

German
Liebe und tu, was du willst.

Latin
Dilige et quod vis fac.

Italian
Ama e fai ciò che vuoi.




See also 

See also...



What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

We have need of morality only for want of love.




Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.





Don't forget to love yourself.











Quotes for: to will


Quotes

Quotes for: to will


Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.






To will oneself free is also to will others free.





The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.





We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.





Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.





Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.











Quotes

Augustine of Hippo also said...


Patience is the companion of wisdom.





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





Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.





Custom is second nature.





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.





The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience; the time present of things future is expectation.












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