Quote of Augustine of Hippo - Since love grows within you, so...

Biography - Augustine of Hippo:

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

Quote

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

Translation

(Latin, French, German)

Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa caritas est animae pulchritudo.”

Quand l'amour grandit en toi, la beauté fait de même. Car l'amour est la beauté de l'âme.”
Augustin d'Hippone

Soviel in dir Liebe wächst, soviel wächst die Schönheit in dir. Denn die Liebe ist die Schönheit der Seele.”
Augustinus von Hippo

Quotes about love:

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, and do what you will.”
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John

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.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, love, all the rest is nothing.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon

love

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Quotes about beauty:

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius

beauty

What beauty is, I know not.”
Albrecht Dürer

beauty

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”
Charles Baudelaire

beauty

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
Charles Baudelaire

beauty

To love beauty is to see light.”
Victor Hugo

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Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

soul

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle

All about soul...

Augustine of Hippo also said...

Love, and do what you will.”
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John

love

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.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Augustine of Hippo

Custom is second nature.”
Augustine of Hippo

habit

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.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

time

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.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

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