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The City of God

A work by Augustine of Hippo

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  • What korrents draws from it

    What matters is not which ills are suffered but what kind of person suffers them, A woman raped without her consent has no cause to kill herself, and still less cause to do so beforehand to avoid it, Killing oneself to escape hardship or disgrace shows a feeble mind, not greatness of soul …

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  • Connections

    Augustine of Hippo

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
Books I-XIII; Marcus Dods translation, 18712
Claims on korrents
201

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. What matters is not which ills are suffered but what kind of person suffers them (opens korrents.com)1

  2. A woman raped without her consent has no cause to kill herself, and still less cause to do so beforehand to avoid it (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Killing oneself to escape hardship or disgrace shows a feeble mind, not greatness of soul (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Those who blame Christianity for their calamities want to live in unrestrained luxury (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Unscrupulous ambition can only thrive in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Pagans blame Christianity for their afflictions but not their gods for Rome's earlier corruption (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Augustine of Hippo

Sources

  1. The City of God, Volume I (Books I-XIII; Marcus Dods translation, 1871) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The City of God, Volume I (Books I-XIII; Marcus Dods translation, 1871) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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