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Quotes by Lactantius

“Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.”

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

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age”

“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.”

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

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.

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

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.