Saint Augustine Quotes
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Augustine, Saint. Soliloquies. Translated by Charles C. Starbuck. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 7. Edited by Philip Schaff. Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888, p. 543.
Despite the fact that there is no scientific data that even suggests that sex weakens men, the Armed Services promulgated this and other absurd and false information in order to try and minimize the amount of sex in which GIs would participate. The same myth was carried over into sports and athletics where many people still believe it.
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.
