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Book Two
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- Book Two
- Chapter I - He Deplores The Wickedness Of His Youth.
- Chapter II - Stricken With Exceeding Grief, He Remembers The Dissolute Passions In Which, In His Sixteenth Year, He Used To Indulge.
- Chapter III - Concerning His Father, A Freeman Of Thagaste, The Assister Of His Son's Studies, And On The Admonitions Of His Mother On The Preservation Of Chastitiy.
- Chapter IV - He Commits Theft With His Companions, Not Urged On By Poverty, But From A Certain Distaste Of Well-Doing
- Chapter IX - It Was A Pleasure To Him Also To Laugh When Seriously Deceiving Others.
- Chapter V - Concerning The Motives To Sin, Which Are Not In The Love Of Evil, But In The Desire Of Obtaining The Property Of Others.
- Chapter VI - When He Delighted In That Theft, When All Things Which Under The Appearance Of Good Invite To Vice Are True And Perfect In God Alone.
- Chapter VII - He Gives Thanks To God For The Remission Of His Sins, And Reminds Everyone That The Supreme God May Have Preserved Us from Greater Sins.
- Chapter VIII - In His Theft He Loved The Company Of His Fellow-Sinners.
- Chapter X - With God There Is True Rest And Life Unchanging.
- Contents - Book II