Lactantius
Lactantius
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian authorwho became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and a tutor to his son...
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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 the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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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 have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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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 gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
controls delights memory
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
humble matter modesty
Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
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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.
discern point wisdom
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.