The City of God

by Augustine · 413-426

Marcus Dods's translation, 1871, Books I to X. 13 parts, about 220,510 words, 17 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Two loves, then, have made two cities.
Book 14, chapter 28 · Read it in Book Eleventh
Remove justice, and what is a kingdom but a great band of robbers?
Book 4, chapter 4 · Read it in Book Fourth
A people is a gathering of a multitude of rational beings united by agreement about the things they love.
Book 19, chapter 24
The peace of all things is the tranquillity of order.
Book 19, chapter 13
Purity is a virtue of the mind, and it is not lost when the body is overpowered without the will's consent.
Book 1, chapter 18 · Read it in Book First

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Marcus Dods. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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