The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the … - Lactantius

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Lactantius

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.

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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.

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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 he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men. . . . Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.

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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?

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

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

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