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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. - [Goodness : Grace] I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. - [Talking] I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. - [Impatience] Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. - [Idols] The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. - [Conscience] There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. - [Joy] Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. - [Insanity] You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. - [Joy]
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