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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was an early Christian author who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and a tutor to his son. His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics.

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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 fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

Adultery, Favour, Mars, Savage, Savages, Venus

Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?

Babylon, Believe, Fall, Gardens, Higher, Rain

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Devil, Men, Real, Things, Work

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

Sex, Differences, Needs, God, Immortal

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

Complete, Excellence, Mind, Perfect, Undoubtedly

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 are always about to exist?

Exist, Immortal, Needs, Sex, Succession

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

Affection, Family, Humanity, Justice, Point

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 governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Created, Doe, Energy, Reflection, Same

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

Firsts, Inspirational, Know, Knows, Point, True

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 all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

Governed, Highest, Mind, Spirit, Together

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 Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

Concerning, Island, Islands, Jupiter, Saturn, Son

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Beings, Humble, Matter, Modesty

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 they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Greatest, Necessity, Perfect, Power, Suffering, Titles

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 to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

Come, Inspiration, Predicted, Prophet, Voice

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

Famished, Filled, Food, Heavenly, Hunger, May