The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
From 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 Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
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.
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
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.
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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