Book, Chapter

 1     1, 11-18|    These my mother foresaw; and preferred to expose to them the clay
 2     1, 13-22|   sinned, then, when as a boy I preferred those empty to those more
 3     4, 2-2  | loquacity to overcome by. Yet I preferred (Lord, Thou knowest) honest
 4     5, 14-25|        sect, to which I already preferred some of the philosophers;
 5     7, 1-1  |     what could not be injured I preferred unhesitatingly to what could
 6     7, 1-1  |       and unchangeable, which I preferred before the corruptible,
 7     7, 3-4  |         with evil, in that they preferred to think that Thy substance
 8     7, 17-23|      the unchangeable was to be preferred to the changeable"; whence
 9     7, 19-25|       of wisdom, I judged to be preferred before others. But Alypius
10     8, 7-17 |      the very search, was to be preferred to the treasures and kingdoms