City of God [De Civitate Dei], Book 15, ch. 22 (15.22) (AD 412-416) [tr. Dods (1871)] - Augustine of Hippo | WIST Quotations
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. [Quod bonum Dei quidem donum est; sed propterea id largitur etiam malis, ne magnum bonum uideatur bonis.] Referencing Genesis 6:1-4, and of the "sons…
