For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay ev…

Saint Augustine
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die. ✨ Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books], p.9332, Aeterna Press
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