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St. Augustine
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1 Int | incidents that inflamed his desire to imitate those who already 2 Int | preferred; there was a strong desire for the storms of his breast 3 Int, 1 | Him with me - him whom I desire to be praised on my account 4 1, X | high repute that almost all desire the same for their children. 5 1, X | studies by which their parents desire them to grow up to be able 6 1, XI | believed in him. For it was her desire, O my God, that I should 7 1, XVIII | of blindness to unlawful desire! When a man seeking the 8 1, XVIII | myself conquered by the vain desire for pre-eminence. And what 9 2, II | pure affection from unholy desire. Both boiled confusedly 10 2, IV | theft by want. Yet I had a desire to commit robbery, and did 11 2, IV | better quality. I did not desire to enjoy what I stole, but 12 2, V | these there springs up the desire for revenge. Yet, in seeking 13 2, V | appears that there was the desire to obtain some of those 14 2, VI | all. Curiosity prompts a desire for knowledge, whereas it 15 2, VI | for things lost in which desire had taken delight, because 16 2, IX | another’s loss without any desire for one’s own profit or 17 3, III | walls of thy church, to desire and to plan a project which 18 3, VIII | violence where there is a real desire to harm another, either 19 3, VIII | lawful things; or by lustful desire for things forbidden, as “ 20 3, IX | are done merely out of a desire to inflict pain. Thus, many 21 4, II | rhetoric. Conquered by the desire for gain, I offered for 22 4, IV | friend’s place in my heart’s desire.~ 23 4, V | for in a prayer there is a desire to approach thee. But is 24 4, XI | province - you would then desire that whatever exists in 25 4, XIV | fashion, as I would myself desire to be admired. For I did 26 5, VIII | noting the real point to her desire, didst not grant what she 27 5, XII | evil from them than was my desire that they should become 28 6, IV | being strangled.158 For my desire was to be as certain of 29 6, IV | be comprehended, but my desire was to have other things 30 6, XI | And what more should I desire? I have crowds of influential 31 6, XI | would be the height of my desire. Many men, who are great 32 6, XII | his amazement awoke the desire for experience, and from 33 6, VII | anguish of my heart. My desire was before thee, and the 34 6, XIII | but these, I should indeed desire something better - but still 35 6, XIII | this, I say, I no longer desire a better world, because 36 6, XVI(210)| primal assertion of the desire for self-ownership" (Plotinus, 37 6, XX | punishment, I had begun to desire to seem wise. I did not 38 7, III | indicates danger; all who desire his safety are themselves 39 7, V | the efforts of those who desire to awake, but who are still 40 7, VI | from the chain of sexual desire by which I was so tightly 41 7, VI | not drawn to this by any desire of gain - for he could have 42 7, VI | ours? What is it that we desire? What is our motive in public 43 7, VII | Hortensius, I was roused to a desire for wisdom. And here I was, 44 7, XII | than she had ventured to desire, and dearer and purer than 45 7, XII | dearer and purer than the desire she used to cherish of having 46 8, II | But as soon as the full desire to be still that I might 47 8, XI | peacefully together, her desire had always been - so little 48 8, XI | more?” she appeared not to desire to die in her own country. 49 9, III | confessions? Many different people desire to know, both those who 50 9, III | that I am. They have the desire to hear me confess what 51 9, III | eye nor ear nor mind. They desire as those willing to believe - 52 9, IV | for what profit do they desire this? Will they wish me 53 9, IV | commanded me to serve if I desire to live with and in thee. 54 9, XIV | and former desires without desire. Again, the contrary happens. 55 9, XIV | basic emotions of the mind: desire, joy, fear, sadness. Whatever 56 9, XX | life the thing that all desire, and is there anyone who 57 9, XX | there anyone who does not desire it at all?341 But where 58 9, XX | it, that they should so desire it? Where have they seen 59 9, XX | which when anyone has his desire he is happy. And then there 60 9, XX | some degree, would not then desire to be happy. And yet it 61 9, XX | certain that they do so desire. How they come to know happiness, 62 9, XX | all acknowledge that we desire the thing, for we are not 63 9, XXI | knowledge; and they would not desire to be delighted unless they 64 9, XXIII | happy life - do not actually desire the happy life? Or, is it 65 9, XXIII | Or, is it rather that all desire this, but because “the flesh 66 9, XXV | grief-stricken, when we desire, or fear, or remember, or 67 9, XXVIII | endure. In adversity, I desire prosperity; in prosperity, 68 9, XXVIII | woe, and a third, from the desire of prosperity - because 69 9, XXXI | is the sensual snare of desire still wanting to be served. 70 9, XXXI | meat, but because in their desire for food they murmured against 71 9, XXXIV | their sleep. Such a man I desire to be. I resist the seductions 72 9, XXXV | and concerning which men desire to know only for the sake 73 9, XXXVI | me during this life: the desire to be feared and loved of 74 9, XXXVI | feared in us. Those who desire to be commended by the men 75 9, XXXVII | prove itself.~But if we desire to test our power of doing 76 9, XL | what to avoid and what to desire, when I have submitted to 77 9, XLIII | drink. For, being poor, I desire to be satisfied from him, 78 10 | experience, and his ardent desire to comprehend the mystery 79 10, II | time been burning with the desire to meditate on thy law, 80 10, II | God, from whence comes my desire. The unrighteous have told 81 10, II | this is the spring of my desire. See, O Father, look and 82 10, IX | mercy, and shalt satisfy my desire with good things so that 83 10, XII | wish that I knew all that I desire to know to my profit as 84 10, XXII | and the obscure, from my desire. Do not bar it from entering 85 11, XXVI | gift than I should wish and desire for myself from thee, if 86 12, I | for thy reception by the desire which thou inspirest in 87 12, IX | settle us so that we will desire nothing more than to dwell 88 12, XVII | helping them even as we would desire to be helped ourselves if 89 12, XXV | CHAPTER XXV~ ~38. I also desire to say, O my Lord God, what 90 12, XXVI | himself adds, “Not because I desire a gift, but because I desire 91 12, XXVI | desire a gift, but because I desire fruit.”643~Now I have learned 92 12, XXXIV | question of what thou didst desire to figure forth, both in


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