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Confessiones (PL)

CAPUT XXII. Beata vita quae, et ubi.

32. Absit, Domine, absit a corde servi tui, qui confitetur tibi; absit ut quocumque gaudio gaudeam, beatum me putem. Est enim gaudium quod non datur impiis ¹, sed eis qui te gratis colunt, quorum gaudium tu ipse es. Et ipsa est beata vita gaudere ad te, de te, propter te; ipsa est, et non est altera. Qui autem aliam putant esse, aliud sectantur gaudium, neque ipsum verum. Ab aliqua tamen imagine gaudii voluntas eorum non avertitur.

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The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books

Chapter XXII.--A Happy Life is to Rejoice in God, and for God.

32. Let it be far, O Lord,--let it be far from the heart of Thy servant who confesseth unto Thee; let it be far from me to think myself happy, be the joy what it may. For there is a joy which is not granted to the "wicked," ¹ but to those who worship Thee thankfully, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And the happy life is this,--to rejoice unto Thee, in Thee, and for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. ² But those who think there is another follow after another joy, and that not the true one. Their will, however, is not turned away from some shadow of joy.