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Lactantius Quotes

- Author | 240 - 320

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.

Nature Son Said Three Island Saturn

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Fear Wisdom Present Where Cannot

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Mountain Saying Name Heaven Possible

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

Live Speak Living Teachers Right

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.

Truth Attention Authority Matters Us

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.

Free Fierce Guilty Mars Savage

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.

Women City Hair Bald Temple Capitol

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?

Sex Need Always Exist Succession

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

Wisdom Know True First Point False

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

God Sex Need Difference Succession

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

God Excellence Mind Perfect Complete

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

Men Say Will Worship Things Being

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