Lactantius Quotes

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• Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
• For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but…
• Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
• Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but…
• Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.
• Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
• Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the…
• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things…
• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too…
• The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.
• The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
• But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor…
• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of…
• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore…
• For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that…
• Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
• It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus…

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