Lactantius famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Justice #Humanity #Affection
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?
-- Lactantius

#Sex #Needs #Immortal
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.
-- Lactantius

#Names #Heaven #Mountain
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.
-- Lactantius

#Perfect #Suffering #Titles
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.
-- Lactantius

#Son #Islands #Jupiter
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
-- Lactantius

#Sex #Differences #Needs
The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.
-- Lactantius

#Inspirational #Firsts
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.
-- Lactantius

#Savages #Mars #Venus
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.
-- Lactantius

#Inspiration #Voice #Prophet
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.
-- Lactantius

#Church #Care #Flesh
Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
-- Lactantius

#May #Hunger #Filled
Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.
-- Lactantius

#Real #Men #Devil
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.
-- Lactantius

#Teacher #Philosopher #Speak
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
-- Lactantius

#Wisdom
Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
-- Lactantius

#Justice #Needs #Poor
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.
-- Lactantius

#Animal #Men #Law
Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
-- Lactantius

#Humble #Matter #Modesty
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.
-- Lactantius

#Father #Greatness #Men
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
-- Lactantius

#Perfect #Mind #Excellence

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