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We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. - Augustine of Hippo
" "We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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About Augustine of Hippo
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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Aurelius Augustinus
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Saint Augustine
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Saint Austin
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Augustine
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St. Augoustinos
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St. Augustine of Hippo
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Aurelius Augustine
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Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
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St. Augustine
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Augustinus
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Augustinus, Aurelius
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bishop of Hippo
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The wisdom of what a person says is in direct proportion to his progress in learning the holy scriptures — and I am not speaking of intensive reading or memorization, but real understanding and careful investigation of their meaning. Some people read them but neglect them; by their reading they profit in knowledge, by their neglect they forfeit understanding.
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