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Restraining lusts out of love of praise makes people less base but not holy
Drawn from what Augustine of Hippo said
What Augustine of Hippo actually said
- Augustine of Hippo Christian philosopher and theologian (354 to 430)
Nevertheless, they who restrain baser lusts, not by the power of the Holy Spirit obtained by the faith of piety, or by the love of intelligible beauty, but by desire of human praise, or, at all events, restrain them better by the love of such praise, are not indeed yet holy, but only less base.
Where this was said
↗The City of God, Volume I (Books I-XIII; Marcus Dods translation, 1871)gutenberg.org
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