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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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.
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose... →
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... →
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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