Saint Augustine Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Freedom, Philosophical

• For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Self, Slave

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.290, CUA Press

• The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

  Saint Augustine

  Vices, Sin, Slave

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.599, Catholic Way Publishing

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

  "The City of God Against the Pagans (Book IV)". Book by Saint Augustine, 426 AD.

• Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Selfish, Book

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The Confessions”, p.198, New City Press

• The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Slave, Remains

• The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

  Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.217, Penguin UK

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