Augustine of Hippo, Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Ninth Homily, §9, H. Browne and J. H. Meyers, trans. (1995)
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Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
— Augustine of Hippo on Beauty
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About Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
About Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
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