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1 1, VI | knew me not, have shown me better what I was like than my
2 1, X | not because I had chosen a better way, but from a sheer love
3 1, XI | not yet cured”! How much better, then, would it have been
4 1, XI | This would have been far better, in truth. But how many
5 1, XIII | Those first lessons were better, assuredly, because they
6 1, XIII | That first learning was far better.” For, obviously, I would
7 2, IV | sufficient measure, and of much better quality. I did not desire
8 2, V | lower order and neglect the better and the higher good - neglecting
9 2, VI | for I had an abundance of better pears. I stole those simply
10 3, VI | truly, it would have been better to have loved this very
11 3, VI | the life of the body is better than the body itself. But
12 3, VI | with husks.68 For how much better were the fables of the grammarians
13 4, III | Actually when I became better acquainted with him, I used
14 4, IV | actual man, both truer and better than the imagined deity
15 4, XI | perceived separately. But far better than all this is He who
16 4, XV | to change from worse to better - yet I chose rather to
17 5, IV | how wide it spreads - is better than the man who can measure
18 5, IV | faithful man may truly be better than the one who can measure
19 5, VI | now it did not seem any better because it was better expressed
20 5, VI | any better because it was better expressed nor more true
21 5, VII | the Manichean books were better or at least as good as the
22 5, VII | had not yet found anything better I decided to content myself,
23 5, VIII | studied more quietly and were better kept under the control of
24 5, VIII | me elsewhere had nothing better than the earth’s cunning.
25 5, IX | be baptized. I was even better when, as a lad, I entreated
26 5, X | mightest endow him with a better and more certain health.
27 5, X | if I could find nothing better. I was now half inclined
28 5, X | every side. And it seemed better to me to believe that no
29 5, X | local spaces. This seemed better than to believe that anything
30 6, V | demonstrated at all. This was far better than the method of the Manicheans,
31 6, X | changed his mind for the better, thinking that the rule
32 6, XVI | thee it would find some better thing! It tossed and turned,
33 6, I | opposite, and the unchangeable better than the changeable.~My
34 6, I | substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the
35 6, IV | to conceive of anything better than thee, who art the highest
36 6, IV | my thoughts to something better than my God, if thou wert
37 6, V | mightily and incomparably better than all his works. But
38 6, XII | corrupted, they will become better, because they will remain
39 6, XII | all good they have become better? If, then, they are deprived
40 6, XIII | indeed desire something better - but still I ought to praise
41 6, XIII | say, I no longer desire a better world, because my thought
42 6, XIII | that the things above were better than those below, yet that
43 6, XIII | all creation together was better than the higher things alone.~
44 6, XVII | that the unchangeable was better than the changeable. From
45 7, I | exhorted me to something better, wishing earnestly that
46 7, V | men rightly count waking better) - yet a man will usually
47 7, V | assured that it was much better for me to give myself up
48 7, VI | groaned. Finally he saw the better course, and resolved on
49 7, VII | kingdoms of this world; better than all bodily pleasures,
50 7, XI | stronger in me than the better, which I had not tried.
51 7, XII | always far different from and better than I - he joined me in
52 8, V | it up again later, when better practiced in our Lord’s
53 9, VI | But the inner part is the better part; for to it, as both
54 9, VI | Now, O my soul, you are my better part, and to you I speak;
55 9, XX | actually happy; yet they are better off than those who are happy
56 9, XXX | hast counseled something better than what thou dost allow.
57 9, XXXI | Neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we
58 9, XXXII | the man who could be made better from having been worse may
59 9, XXXII | not also from having been better become worse. Our sole hope,
60 9, XXXVI | one who praised is truly better than the one who was praised.
61 9, XXXVI | one, while the other was better pleased with the gift of
62 9, XXXVIII| and poor.”389 Still, I am better when in secret groanings
63 10, XXIX | since thy loving-kindness is better than life itself,”450 observe
64 11, XXIX | choice, because a sound is no better than a tune, since a tune
65 12, III | turned, by a change for the better, toward that which cannot
66 12, III | cannot be changed for either better or worse. Thou alone art,
67 12, IV(510)| that order was in every way better" (F. M. Cornford, Plato'
68 12, XXII | living after the example of a better man - for thou didst not
69 12, XXIV | phrase, let those who are better than I - that is, those
70 12, XXIV | intelligent than I - interpret it better, in the degree that thou
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