“IT is clear, then, that the man who does not live according to man but according to God must be a lover of the good and, therefore, a hater of evil; since no man is wicked by nature but is wicked only by some defect, a man who lives according to God owes it to wicked men that his hatred be perfect, so that, neither hating the man because of his corruption nor loving the corruption because of the man, he should hate the sin but love the sinner. For once the corruption has been cured, then all that is left should be loved and nothing remains to be hated.”

— St. Augustine, City of God, Book XIV, chapt. 4

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