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"I have also written a Book on Lying, which though it takes some pains to understand, contains much that is useful for the exercise of the mind, and more that is profitable to morals, in inculcating the love of speaking the truth. This also I was minded to remove from my works,... Read Full Overview

From the Retractations, Book II. Chap. 60. "Then also I wrote a Book against Lying, the occasion of which work was this. In order to discover the Priscillianist heretics, who think it right to conceal their heresy not only by denial and lies, but even by perjury, it seemed to... Read Full Overview

Esta obra "Tratados sobre la mentira" escrita por San Agust?n de Hipona (te?logo latino, 354-430), incluye dos tratados sobre este tema: "La Mentira" y "Contra la Mentira". El tratado de "La Mentira" es, como el mismo lo dijo, dif?cil, por traer a discusi?n argumentos: a favor... Read Full Overview

"Du mensonge" de Saint Augustin. Saint Augustin, philosophe, th ologien chr tien, v que d'Hippone, et crivain romain (354-430).

Augustine, the man with upturned eye, with pen in the left hand, and a burning heart in the right (as he is usually represented), is a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, towering like a pyramid above his age, and looking down commandingly upon succeeding... Read Full Overview

From the Retractations, Book II. Chap. 60. "Then also I wrote a Book against Lying, the occasion of which work was this. In order to discover the Priscillianist heretics, who think it right to conceal their heresy not only by denial and lies, but even by perjury, it seemed... Read Full Overview