God Quote by Lactantius

Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may…

— Lactantius

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

— Lactantius

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

— Lactantius

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was…

— Lactantius

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

— Lactantius

Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since…

— Lactantius

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair…

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The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

— Lactantius

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things…

— Lactantius

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because…

— Lactantius

“I am inclined to think that the corrupting influence of the stage is even worse [than that of the arena]. The subjects of comedies…

— Lactantius