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The Prodigal's Return: Augustine's Confessions, Books IV & IV | Professor Russell Hittinger

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The Metamorphosis of Envy and Jealousy

The most effective way to meet someone sorrowful is destroying them really for it to make the cause of your pain. So jealousy instead of that work because that's already kind of what you define as jealousy is already taken care of in there. Jealousy instead of the work is, I think the best way to define it is asserting the right you don't have. Augustine might just want his own greatness. You're not going to become a great hunter because your mother's great. You see someone else's greatness. Is there already advice in your being self protected?

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