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...Augustine, Confessions, City of God a few times already, like I feel I’ve absorbed what I’m going to get from that....
...The world about which Gerard Russell writes is not, however, ideal....
...This is the view held by philosophers from Augustine to Hobbes, Hume, and Adam Smith....
...The tradition has its roots in St Augustine, was developed further by St Thomas Aquinas and reached its culmination in the writings of the 16th and 17th-century jurists and theologians....
...St Augustine had an even more spectacular success: by starving himself, he forced God to grant his wish....
...In the Middle Ages Saint Augustine wrote of the incubi who ”often made wicked assaults upon women and satisfied their lust upon them” while they slept....
...Memoirs have been around since at least the time of Augustine, who set the tone in the 4th century with his Confessions, an unsparing self-portrait in which the saintly monk owns up to a sinful past of fornication...
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