Adrienne’s Reviews > Sant Augustine: The City of God, an Abridged Version from the Translation by Gerald G. Walsh, S.J.; Demetrius B. Zema, S.J.; Grace Monahan, O.S.U.; and Daniel J. Honan > Status Update

[Scipio] did not think that the republic could be happy while walls were standing, yet morals were collapsing…Depraved by prosperity and unchastened by adversity, you desire, in your security, not the peace of the State but liberty for license.” P.62