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• Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
  -- Saint Augustine (354-430), Confessions (397-398)...
• The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
  -- Saint Augustine, "Confessions", Datalink...
• Wine is bottled poetry. -- Robert Louis Stevenso
• Necessity has no law. -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Soliloquium Animae ad Deum
• 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 shame.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Ladder of Saint Augustine...
• 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 (396-427)...
• He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a sai
  that boasteth of it is a devil. -- Fulle...
• When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
  -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Epistle 36, To Casulanu...
• 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 Augustine...