Poetry is the devil's wine.
-- Saint Augustine (354-430)
-- Confessions (397-398)
-- Saint Augustine (354-430)
-- Confessions (397-398)
Related:
- Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine (354-430), Confessions (397... - The wicked have told me of things that delight them,
but not such things as your law has to tell. ... - Wine is bottled poetry.
--
Robert Louis... - Necessity has no law.
-- Saint Augustine (354-430)
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Soliloquium Animae ad... - Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder,
if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of... - We are ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the
foolishness of God.
Saint Augustine (354-430) -- On Christian doctrine... - He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saint;
that boasteth of it is a devil. --... - When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome,
I do fast on Saturday. -- Saint Augustine (354-430)... - If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce
love because you do not consent,
will chastity also be homicide? -- Saint...
From the same category:
- He who gets too big for his britches gets exposed in the end.
Wain's... - What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as
woman's silence. --... - Fire, Mr. Worf!
<Worf picks up extinguisher<... - A king's castle is
his home... - Fools have been and always will be the majority of
mankind...
