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Confessiones (PL)

CAPUT XIII. Memoria meminisse nos meminimus.

20. Haec omnia memoria teneo, et quomodo ea didicerim memoria teneo. Multa etiam quae adversus haec falsissime disputantur audivi, et memoria teneo: quae tametsi falsa sunt, tamen ea meminisse me non est falsum; et discrevisse me inter illa vera et haec falsa quae contradicuntur, et hoc memini; aliterque nunc video discernere me ista, aliter autem memini saepe me discrevisse cum ea saepe cogitarem. Ergo et intellexisse me saepius ista memini; et quod nunc discerno et intelligo, recondo in memoria, ut postea me nunc intellexisse meminerim. Ergo et meminisse [Col. 0788] me memini; sicut postea quod haec reminisci nunc potui si recordabor, utique per vim memoriae recordabor.

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The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books

Chapter XIII.--Memory Retains All Things.

20. All these things I retain in my memory, and how I learnt them I retain. I retain also many things which I have heard most falsely objected against them, which though they be false, yet is it not false that I have remembered them; and I remember, too, that I have distinguished between those truths and these falsehoods uttered against them; and I now see that it is one thing to distinguish these things, another to remember that I often distinguished them, when I often reflected upon them. I both remember, then, that I have often understood these things, and what I now distinguish and comprehend I store away in my memory, that hereafter I may remember that I understood it now. Therefore also I remember that I have remembered; so that if afterwards I shall call to mind that I have been able to remember these things, it will be through the power of memory that I shall call it to mind.