Quote by SAINT AUGUSTINE - Deepstash

But the arrogance of pride, the pleasures of lust, and the poison of vain curiosity are the impulses of a soul that is dead, not one so dead that it lacks all impulse, but one that is dead because it has forsaken the fountain of life and is swept along by the fleeting things of this world, lending itself to their ways

SAINT AUGUSTINE

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The Animal Power.

The Animal Power.

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