Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

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Autobiography and memoir

Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

In the original Latin

Da mihi castiatem et continentiam, sed noli modo.

St. Augustine

Confessions · 398

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Topic

Chastity Sexual morality Self-control Sex

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Time

398 Early Christianity

Person

St. Augustine

Provenance

Current citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 8, ch. 7.

Original citation

Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 8, ch. 7.

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