Augustine quote?

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Augustine quote?

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Where does this quote come from?:
Take care of your body as if you will live forever, and take care of your soul as if you will die tomorrow.
As usual it was attributed to Augustine. I know that he wrote volumes of material, but the poor guy gets credited with just about everything.

Quotation Investigator came up empty.
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I couldn't find it either, after an extensive search, and it doesn't sound like him to me.

https://fauxtations.wordpress.com/2016/ ... your-body/
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Thanks!
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I saw a nearly identical quote attributed to St. Augustine on Instagram recently. It was posted by heroic_catholic. I even snapped a screen capture of it (dated 11 May 2024).
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