Contents – Book IV Book IV Chapter I Concerning that Most Unhappy Time in Which He, Being Deceived, Deceived Others; and Concerning the Mockers of...
BOOK FOUR This is the story of his years among the Manicheans. It includes the account of his teaching at Tagaste, his taking a mistress,...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER II 2. During those years I taught the art of rhetoric. Conquered by the desire for gain, I offered for sale speaking...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER III 4. And yet, without scruple, I consulted those other impostors, whom they call “astrologers” [mathematicos], because they used no sacrifices and...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER IV 7. In those years, when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had gained a very dear...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER V 10. But now, O Lord, these things are past and time has healed my wound. Let me learn from thee, who...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER VI 11. But why do I speak of these things? Now is not the time to ask such questions, but rather to...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER VII 12. O madness that knows not how to love men as they should be loved! O foolish man that I was...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER VIII 13. Time never lapses, nor does it glide at leisure through our sense perceptions. It does strange things in the mind....
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER IX 14. This is what we love in our friends, and we love it so much that a man’s conscience accuses itself...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER X 15. “Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”[101] For wherever the...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER XI 16. Be not foolish, O my soul, and do not let the tumult of your vanity deafen the ear of your...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER XII 18. If physical objects please you, praise God for them, but turn back your love to their Creator, lest, in those...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER XIII 20. These things I did not understand at that time, and I loved those inferior beauties, and I was sinking down...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER XIV 21. What was it, O Lord my God, that prompted me to dedicate these books to Hierius, an orator of Rome,...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER XV 24. But I had not seen how the main point in these great issues [concerning the nature of beauty] lay really...
BOOK FOUR CHAPTER XVI 28. And what did it profit me that, when I was scarcely twenty years old, a book of Aristotle’s entitled The Ten...
BOOK FOUR This is the story of his years among the Manicheans. It includes the account of his teaching at Tagaste, his taking a mistress,...
