Confessions of Saint Augustine Book VII

If a man made a great many predictions, several of them would later prove to be true, but he could not know it at the time and would only hit upon them by chance, simply by opening his mouth to speak

It was made clear to me also that even those things which are subject to decay are good

For corruption is harmful, but unless it diminished what is good, it could do no harm. The conclusion then must be either that corruption does no harm — which is not possible; or that everything which is corrupted is deprived of good — which is beyond doubt. But if they are deprived of all good, they will not exist at all

Falsehood is nothing but the supposed existence of something which has no being

For I had no begun to wish to be thought wise. I was full of self-esteem, which was a punishment of my own making