CONTENTS
Confessions
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Author: St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Year: n.a.
(On stage plays)
How comes it to pass that a man is desirous to be made sorrowful by beholding sad and tragical events, which he would not willingly suffer in his own person? Yet, as a spectator... that very grief itself is a pleasure to him. What is this but a wretched madness?
Tr. T. Matthew
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