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We are slaves to our vices; freedom is found in goodness — Augustine of Hippo

5 July 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

St Augustine of Hippo

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

— St Augustine of Hippo: /City of God/ IV. 3

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