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- Book Ten
- Chapter I - In God Alone Is The Hope And Joy Of Man.
- Chapter II - That All Things Are Manifest To God. That Confession Unto Him Is Not Made By The Words Of The FLesh, But Of The Soul, And The Cry Of Reflection.
- Chapter III - He Who Confesseth Rightly Unto God Best Knoweth Himself.
- Chapter IV - That In His Confessions He May Do Good, He Considers Others.
- Chapter IX - Not Only Things, But Also Literature And Images, Are Taken From The Memory, And Are Brought Forth By The Act Of Remembering.
- Chapter V - That Man Knoweth Not Himself Wholly.
- Chapter VI - The Love Of God, In His Nature Superior To All Creatures, Is Acquired By The Knowledge Of The Senses And The Exercise Of Reason.
- Chapter VII - That God Is To Be Found Neither From The Powers Of The Body Nor Of The Soul.
- Chapter VIII - Of The Nature And The Amazing Power Of Memory.
- Chapter X - Literature Is Not Introduced To The Memory Through The Senses, But Is Brought Forth From Its More Secret Places.
- Chapter XI - What It Is To Learn And To Think.
- Chapter XII - On The Recollection Of Things Mathematical.
- Chapter XIII - Memory Retains All Things.
- Chapter XIV - Concerning The Manner In Which Joy And Sadness May Be Brought Back To The Mind And Memory.
- Chapter XIX - What It Is To Remember.
- Chapter XL - The Only Safe Resting-Place For The Soul Is To Be Found In God.
- Chapter XLI - Having Conquered His Triple Desire, He Arrives At Salvation.
- Chapter XLII - In What Manner Many Sought The Mediator.
- Chapter XLIII - That Jesus Christ, At The Same Time God And Man, Is The True And Most Efficacious Mediator.
- Chapter XV - In Memory There Are Also Images Of Things Which Are Absent.
- Chapter XVI - The Privation Of Memory Is Forgetfulness.
- Chapter XVII - God Cannot Be Attained Unto By The Power Of Memory, Which Beasts And Birds Possess.
- Chapter XVIII - A Thing When Lost Could Not Be Found Unless It Were Retained In The Memory.
- Chapter XX - We Should Not Seek For God And The Happy Life Unless We Had Known It.
- Chapter XXI - How A Happy Life May Be Retained In The Memory.
- Chapter XXII - A Happy Life Is To Rejoice In God, And For God.
- Chapter XXIII - All Wish To Rejoice In The Truth.
- Chapter XXIV - He Who Finds Truth, Finds God.
- Chapter XXIX - All Hope Is In The Mercy Of God.
- Chapter XXV - He Is Glad That God Dwells In His Memory.
- Chapter XXVI - God Everywhere Answers Those Who Take Counsel Of Him.
- Chapter XXVII - He Grieves That He Was So Long Without God.
- Chapter XXVIII - On The Misery Of human Life.
- Chapter XXX - Of The Perverse Images Of Dreams, Which He Wishes To Have Taken Away.
- Chapter XXXI - About To Speak Of The Temptations Of The Lust Of The Flesh, He First Complains Of The Lust Of Eating And Drinking.
- Chapter XXXII - Of The Charms Of Perfumes Which Are More Easily Overcome.
- Chapter XXXIII - He Overcame The Pleasures Of The Ear, Although In The Church He Frequently Delighted In The Song, Not In The Thing Sung.
- Chapter XXXIV - Of The Very Dangerous Allurements Of The Eyes; On Account Of Beauty Of Form, God, The Creator, Is To Be Praised.
- Chapter XXXIX - Of The Vice Of Those Who, While Pleasing Themselves, Displease God.
- Chapter XXXV - Another Kind Of Temptation Is Curiosity, Which Is Stimulated By The Lust Of The Eyes.
- Chapter XXXVI - A Third Kind Is "Pride," Which Is Pleasing To Man, Not To God.
- Chapter XXXVII - He Is Forcibly Goaded On By The Love Of Praise.
- Chapter XXXVIII - Vain-Glory Is The Highest Danger.
- Contents - Book X