This is one of Augustine’s earliest surviving works, written just after his Contra Academicos (Against the Academics) and before Soliloquies .
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Augustine defines wisdom as “the ordering of life” ( ordo vitae ). The wise person is not the one who knows many facts, but the one who has attained “the measure of the soul” ( modus animi ). This measure prevents excess or deficiency. This is one of Augustine’s earliest surviving works,
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