To you it is not one thing to live, another to live in blessed happiness, because you are your own blessedness.
iv (5) Even if the creation had either never come into existence or remained formless, nothing could be lacking to the good which you are to yourself.
 Saint Augustine, Confessions (401). copy citation

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Author Saint Augustine
Source Confessions
Topic happiness creation
Date 401
Language English
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Note Translated by Henry Chadwick
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