Contents – Book II Book II Chapter I He Deplores the Wickedness of His Youth. Chapter II Stricken With Exceeding Grief, He Remembers the Dissolute...
BOOK TWO He concentrates here on his sixteenth year, a year of idleness, lust, and adolescent mischief. The memory of stealing some pears prompts a...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER II 2. But what was it that delighted me save to love and to be loved? Still I did not keep the...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER III 5. Now, in that year my studies were interrupted. I had come back from Madaura, a neighboring city[46] where I had gone...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER IV 9. Theft is punished by thy law, O Lord, and by the law written in men’s hearts, which not even ingrained...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER V 10. Now there is a comeliness in all beautiful bodies, and in gold and silver and all things. The sense of...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER VI 12. What was it in you, O theft of mine, that I, poor wretch, doted on–you deed of darkness–in that sixteenth...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER VII 15. “What shall I render unto the Lord”[55] for the fact that while my memory recalls these things my soul no longer...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER VIII 16. What profit did I, a wretched one, receive from those things which, when I remember them now, cause me shame–above...
BOOK TWO CHAPTER IX 17. By what passion, then, was I animated? It was undoubtedly depraved and a great misfortune for me to feel it....
BOOK TWO CHAPTER X 18. Who can unravel such a twisted and tangled knottiness? It is unclean. I hate to reflect upon it. I hate...
BOOK TWO He concentrates here on his sixteenth year, a year of idleness, lust, and adolescent mischief. The memory of stealing some pears prompts a...
