Lactantius Quotes

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to… Attention
• The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that… Adorned
• There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and… All
• Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many… Admit
• Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they… Eternal
• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of… Bald
• The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. Discern
• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. Adversity

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