The Confessions Of Saint Augustine

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Chapter III – Not Even When At Church Does He Suppress His Desires. In The School Of Rhetoric He Abhors The Acts Of The Subverters.

Chapter II – In Public Spectacles He Is Moved By An Empty Compassion. He Is Attacked By A Troublesome Spiritual Disease.

Chapter I – Deluded By An Insane Love, He, Though Foul And Dishonourable, Desires To Be Thought Elegant And Urbane.

Contents – Book III

Chapter X – With God There Is True Rest And Life Unchanging.

Chapter IX – It Was A Pleasure To Him Also To Laugh When Seriously Deceiving Others.

Chapter VIII – In His Theft He Loved The Company Of His Fellow-Sinners.

Chapter VII – He Gives Thanks To God For The Remission Of His Sins, And Reminds Everyone That The Supreme God May Have Preserved Us from Greater Sins.

Chapter VI – When He Delighted In That Theft, When All Things Which Under The Appearance Of Good Invite To Vice Are True And Perfect In God Alone.

Chapter V – Concerning The Motives To Sin, Which Are Not In The Love Of Evil, But In The Desire Of Obtaining The Property Of Others.