I poured my soul into the dust by loving a man who was soon… - Augustine of Hippo

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I poured my soul into the dust by loving a man who was soon to die, as if he would live forever.

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St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.

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Native Name: Aurelius Augustinus

Alternative Names: Saint Augustine • Saint Austin • Augustine • St. Augoustinos • St. Augustine of Hippo • Aurelius Augustine • Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis • St. Augustine • Augustinus • Saint Augustine of Hippo • Augustinus, Aurelius • bishop of Hippo

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Quid est ira? Libido vindictae. Quid est odium? Ira inveterata.

Do not abandon what You have begun in me, but go on to perfect all that remains unfinished.

Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie divinantium, maxime dicentes vera, cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemoniorum animam deceptam, pacto quodam societatis irretiant.

I poured my soul into the dust by loving a man who was soon to die, as if he would live forever. - Augustine of Hippo

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