The Quotable St Augustine

For around three years now, I have been 'doing' (if that is the word) a Ph.D. on two people, one called St Augustine (North Africa, 5th century AD) and the other called Ramanuja (South India, 11th century AD). As for the former, he has some pretty grim things to say about the 'human condition'; but the patient reader of St Augustine will be rewarded by the little gems that are liberally strewn through his volumes. Three of these gems are :

(A) Adam did not love Eve because she was beautiful. It was because Adam loved Eve that Eve felt that she had become beautiful. (Or is that 'sexist'? Hmm...)

(B) The only measure of love is to love without measure.

(C) I wish that my books will be read by someone who is not only a kind reader but also a frank critic.