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Augustine of Hippo

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Biography - Augustine of Hippo:

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

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



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Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.











Quotes for: book


Quotes

Quotes for: book


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.





The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





Few people ask from books what books can give us.





Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.





Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book.











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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.





Love, and do what you will.





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.












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