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1 I, pref| IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.~MEN of great and distinguished
2 I, pref| of the body only. Those men were indeed most deserving
3 I, pref| severity, which the nature of men inclined to vices cannot
4 I, pref| engaged, we trained young men not to virtue, but altogether
5 I, pref| to instruct the minds of men to the worship of the true
6 I, pref| respecting the affairs of men, who imparts the knowledge
7 I, pref| well, as he who teaches men to live in piety and innocence;
8 I, pref| power into the minds of men, being both provided with
9 I, 1 | undertaken! And if some skilful men and arbiters of justice
10 I, 1 | restored to the affairs of men? Therefore, leaving the
11 I, 1 | truth appears so obscure to men, and to those especially
12 I, 1 | esteemed wise, or because men will only need to be trained
13 I, 2 | PROVIDENCE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN.~Having therefore undertaken
14 I, 2 | the falsehoods of a few men who entertained perverse
15 I, 2 | sufficiently answered by men of sagacity and eloquence,
16 I, 4 | removed from those holy men. For they so discharged
17 I, 5 | the flocks, the herds, and men, and all the race of beasts,
18 I, 5 | number of the seven wise men, and who is said to have
19 I, 5 | enough to demonstrate that men of the highest genius touched
20 I, 6 | shall name was taken from men and placed among the gods.
21 I, 6 | err, being themselves but men. Marcus Varro, than whom
22 I, 6 | conveyed the voice of God to men, thus spoke:--~4. "I am
23 I, 7 | beside God.~Therefore let men withdraw themselves from
24 I, 8 | with the rest, were but men, since they were born from
25 I, 9 | not compare with excellent men, but I judge him to be most
26 I, 9 | things, which most trifling men admire, to be ridiculous.
27 I, 9 | or Lucian, who spared not men nor gods, but these especially
28 I, 9 | children. Is this he whom men consider a god? But his
29 I, 10 | dissertation concerning illustrious men, says that he was born of
30 I, 10 | unless it happens that we men are mistaken in terming
31 I, 11 | the matter, in order that men may understand in what errors
32 I, 11 | says, to be the author of men and all things, when innumerable
33 I, 11 | innumerable thousands of men existed before his birth--
34 I, 11 | of death? Why, then, do men raise their eyes to the
35 I, 11 | male children of Saturn. Men, therefore, might have had
36 I, 11 | For they spoke respecting men; but in order that they
37 I, 11 | spoke concerning them as men and this will be manifest
38 I, 11 | to embellish them. Hence men are deceived; especially
39 I, 11 | relatives, and left laws to men, provided them with a settled
40 I, 11 | not absolutely say that men could possibly be born from
41 I, 11 | who were born from those men, who either during their
42 I, 12 | have happened in truth. But men, having regard to the element
43 I, 13 | Saturn and Ops, and other men, were at that time accustomed
44 I, 13 | that Jupiter, who gave to men laws and civilization, was
45 I, 13 | Cassius, and Varro. For since men lived in Italy after a rustic
46 I, 13 | reigned on earth and among men:--~"First Cronus ruled o'
47 I, 13 | First Cronus ruled o'er men on earth,~And then from
48 I, 14 | lands, followed by armed men whom Jupiter had sent to
49 I, 15 | XV. HOW THEY WHO WERE MEN OBTAINED THE NAME OF GODS.~
50 I, 15 | these things that they were men, it is not difficult to
51 I, 15 | account of the small number of men who lived a rustic life
52 I, 15 | doubt but in those times men began to exalt the king
53 I, 15 | their wonderful excellence, men as yet rude and simple really
54 I, 15 | of themselves. Therefore men formed images of them, that
55 I, 15 | saying "But the life of men and common intercourse led
56 I, 15 | heaven by fame and goodwill men who were distinguished by
57 I, 15 | exciting valour, or that the men most distinguished for bravery
58 I, 15 | veneration, whether they were men distinguished for bravery,
59 I, 15 | and countries, inasmuch as men desire to show gratitude
60 I, 15 | thou, O Greece, to princely men?~Why to the dead dost offer
61 I, 15 | publicly worshipped were men. And this testimony of his
62 I, 15 | he says, "we see many men and women among the number
63 I, 15 | you to the estimation of men." Some one may perhaps say
64 I, 15 | those whose services to men have placed them in heaven:
65 I, 15 | who are worshipped were men; and when he acknowledged
66 I, 16 | inveterate a persuasion, that men may at length be ashamed
67 I, 16 | to release the minds of men from the ties of superstitions,"
68 I, 16 | surpassed in fruitfulness by men. It follows that all things
69 I, 16 | For since the multitude of men is incredible, and their
70 I, 16 | practise those things which men are ashamed to do, and to
71 I, 17 | superstitions: he complains that men are entangled in false opinions
72 I, 17 | supposed to be gods were but men, and that their memory was
73 I, 17 | not only gods, but also men? For from her infamous debauchery
74 I, 17 | unchaste and a courter of men beyond other females. Has
75 I, 18 | WHICH THEY CONFERRED UPON MEN.~In this place also they
76 I, 18 | gods have been made from men, but even boast of it as
77 I, 18 | of being the causes why men should contaminate themselves
78 I, 18 | Truly the greater number of men they have cast down, plundered,
79 I, 18 | slaughtered countless thousands of men, has inundated plains with
80 I, 18 | to heaven to be open to men through slaughters and bloodshed!
81 I, 18 | appear to themselves, wise men, involved in such miserable
82 I, 18 | undoubtedly be realized, if men would cast aside their pernicious
83 I, 18 | it will not be permitted men to rage against their fellow-men?
84 I, 18 | wine and corn were used by men before the offspring of
85 I, 18 | bruised it, to have taught men to make bread; or to have
86 I, 18 | art? Is it that those rich men despise Samian vessels?
87 I, 18 | adoration of her who taught men to set up the woof? What
88 I, 19 | those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are
89 I, 19 | lightnings. But ingenious men perchance thus reasoned
90 I, 19 | that gods were made from men, why then do they not believe
91 I, 19 | they were not even good men, and during their life they
92 I, 20 | gods always at hand, as men commonly wish? The conduct
93 I, 20 | deplorable wickedness of unchaste men, who exposed their children,
94 I, 20 | influence on the minds of men; and if you forbid these
95 I, 20 | turn out to the service of men? To what purport is it to
96 I, 20 | bare their persons. But the men, recognising their wives,
97 I, 20 | or rather that learned men should be occupied with
98 I, 21 | deities able to bestow on the men by whose punishments they
99 I, 21 | continuing, that instead of real men, images made from rushes
100 I, 21 | bridge the images of ancient men made from rushes."~For I
101 I, 21 | of Jupiter. To think that men were so barbarous, so savage,
102 I, 21 | of the sensibilities of men? What can be sacred to these
103 I, 21 | What can be sacred to these men? Or what will they do in
104 I, 21 | advantage, then, did the men propose by that sacrifice,
105 I, 21 | mother of the gods, in which men mutilate themselves; others
106 I, 21 | may imagine them to be men. For Romulus after his death
107 I, 21 | offering prayers to dead men. I do not then require that
108 I, 21 | laugh at the follies of men who are almost without understanding:
109 I, 21 | these things are done by men not unskilful and ignorant,
110 I, 21 | O foolish minds of men! O blinded breasts! In what
111 I, 21 | mockeries, when he sees that men, as though bereft of intelligence,
112 I, 22 | rude and ignorant minds of men with new superstitions:
113 I, 22 | Jupiter, that he might bind men to obedience not only by
114 I, 22 | stone chests were found by men who were digging, in one
115 I, 22 | women, as Faunus did to men. And Varro writes that she
116 I, 22 | indeed, compares foolish men to infants. But I say that
117 I, 22 | suppose that images are men, whereas these take them
118 I, 23 | instruct in true religion men who, through ignorance of
119 II, 1 | FORGETFULNESS OF REASON MAKES MEN IGNORANT OF THE TRUE GOD,
120 II, 1 | honour the general consent of men throughout the world by
121 II, 1 | all the causes by which men were deceived, so that at
122 II, 1 | light the impious vanity of men, to assert the majesty of
123 II, 1 | greater duty of recalling men from crooked paths, and
124 II, 1 | power and standing unless men lay aside depravity, and
125 II, 1 | especially neglected; and that men have sunk to such blindness,
126 II, 1 | And yet this impiety of men might meet with some indulgence
127 II, 1 | indeed, is not the case with men in their prosperity. For
128 II, 1 | God escape the memory of men, when in the enjoyment of
129 II, 1 | to gain the compassion of men. Thus they never remember
130 II, 1 | rejoices in the errors of men, whose one and only task
131 II, 1 | and to blind the minds of men, lest they should see the
132 II, 1 | which it ought to rule. But men, forgetful both of their
133 II, 2 | likenesses was invented by men for this reason, that it
134 II, 2 | fashioned by the fingers of men out of stone, or bronze,
135 II, 2 | actions. Nor do the foolish men understand, that if images
136 II, 2 | of their own accord adore men, by whom they have been
137 II, 2 | considers these things; for men are imbued with this persuasion,
138 II, 3 | III. THAT CICERO AND OTHER MEN OF LEARNING ERRED IN NOT
139 II, 3 | that learned and prudent men, though they understand
140 II, 3 | aware that the deities which men worshipped were false. For
141 II, 3 | recalling of the minds of men to a healthy state by your
142 II, 3 | are mere bodies without men, because they have given
143 II, 3 | poet severely accuses those men as humble and abject, who,
144 II, 3 | not regard the affairs of men. In another place, at length,
145 II, 3 | attacked by more sagacious men, because they perceived
146 II, 3 | greatest difference between men and the beasts consists
147 II, 3 | they openly proclaimed that men were not in possession of
148 II, 4 | which altogether resemble men, build their nests there,
149 II, 4 | ridiculed the folly of men. But they who make the images
150 II, 4 | in vain, therefore, that men set off and adorn their
151 II, 4 | granted, but by bearded men. Therefore Seneca deservedly
152 II, 4 | at the folly even of old men. We are not (he says) boys
153 II, 4 | this difference, that when men we have greater subjects
154 II, 4 | subjects of sport. Therefore men offer to these dolls, which
155 II, 4 | voluntarily by those from whom men were accustomed to implore
156 II, 4 | case, therefore, because men could not punish his sacrilegious
157 II, 4 | cross, and whatever torture men can invent in their anger
158 II, 4 | that it was unlawful for men to enter the secret recesses
159 II, 4 | whom it was unlawful for men to behold even for the sake
160 II, 4 | against the injuries of men, to those who were unable
161 II, 5 | light for the affairs of men, in proof of His own single
162 II, 5 | the uses and interests of men, they nevertheless regard
163 II, 5 | uncivilized or ignorant men err, since even philosophers
164 II, 6 | for the sake of gods and men as a common dwelling? Therefore
165 II, 6 | members of one man are many men; but, however, there is
166 II, 6 | common abode for gods and men. If, therefore, it has been
167 II, 7 | moon after the fashion of men; also those of fire, and
168 II, 7 | the elements themselves. Men are possessed with so great
169 II, 7 | pursuit of which the desire of men is not unreservedly condemned?
170 II, 7 | that which the desire of men admires. These are the religious
171 II, 7 | this all the most abandoned men flocked together indiscriminately
172 II, 7 | decrees learned and sagacious men obey with the greatest devotion;
173 II, 7 | unchangeable which an hundred old men clothed in skins established
174 II, 8 | moved by all the strong men, was moved by a single woman.
175 II, 8 | herself great veneration among men. For when the city had been
176 II, 9 | pretended deity, led by which men have departed very far from
177 II, 9 | practice of the Academics, that men are permitted to speak with
178 II, 9 | from those first seven wise men, even to Socrates and Plato,
179 II, 10 | darkness, and because it makes men die and perish in their
180 II, 10 | guilty, inasmuch as they were men. When, therefore, the use
181 II, 10 | things in which the life of men consists was forbidden,
182 II, 11 | they might be of service to men: some, for instance, were
183 II, 11 | the excessive multitude of men, how was Prometheus the
184 II, 11 | quickly filled the world with men? But it is plain that they
185 II, 11 | erring philosophers say, that men and the other animals arose
186 II, 11 | And the earth-born race of men raised its head from the
187 II, 11 | are seen in the case of men individually: for we begin
188 II, 11 | warps the web of life for men; the second, who weaves
189 II, 11 | But in the whole race of men, because the present time
190 II, 12 | could have taken place, that men should be born from the
191 II, 12 | the figure of the form of men, He Himself mixed the nature
192 II, 13 | death, recall righteous men, His worshippers, to the
193 II, 13 | authorities report that men are accustomed to reach
194 II, 14 | contain them, then young men, either sent by their parents
195 II, 15 | therefore, the number of men had begun to increase, God
196 II, 15 | either corrupt or destroy men, as he had done at first,
197 II, 15 | while they abode among men, that most deceitful ruler
198 II, 15 | were neither angels nor men, but bearing a kind of mixed
199 II, 15 | the guardians of mortal men."~And this is said for this
200 II, 15 | they are the destroyers of men, yet wish themselves to
201 II, 15 | they deceive the sight of men with deceptive illusions,
202 II, 15 | perdition by the destruction of men. Therefore they fill every
203 II, 15 | themselves into the bodies of men; and secretly working in
204 II, 15 | these evils they may compel men to have recourse to their
205 II, 16 | and only good thing among men is piety." And what piety
206 II, 16 | enemies and harassers of men, and on this account Trismegistus
207 II, 17 | practices besides these men exercise, either openly
208 II, 17 | erroneous,~Which foolish men search after day by day."~
209 II, 17 | delude the credulity of men by lying divination, because
210 II, 17 | These are they who taught men to make images and statues;
211 II, 17 | might turn away the minds of men from the worship of the
212 II, 17 | overspread the minds of men with errors, interweave
213 II, 17 | but that they may injure men, whom they strive to turn
214 II, 17 | truth with obscurity, that men may not know their Lord
215 II, 17 | often give prodigies, that men, astonished by them, may
216 II, 17 | authority and fear from men, who are ignorant of them.
217 II, 18 | ears."~But now He suffers men to err, and to be impious
218 II, 18 | worshipped are representations of men who are dead; and that is
219 II, 18 | to which most senseless men do service, are destitute
220 II, 18 | daily business, to involve men in darkness, that the true
221 II, 18 | spirits, do not act as becomes men, and that they will suffer
222 II, 20 | oppressed by the authority of men excelling in every kind
223 II, 20 | smaller number of learned men than in a greater number
224 III, 1 | two reasons: either that men might more readily believe
225 III, 1 | the greatest importance by men who are ingenious and eloquent,
226 III, 1 | to remedy the errors of men, they have become entangled
227 III, 1 | they might speak well as men of learning; but they could
228 III, 3 | He reckons such wisdom of men as the greatest folly.~
229 III, 4 | testifies; for the nature of men is so arranged, that they
230 III, 4 | true that there are no wise men, because all deny the wisdom
231 III, 4 | sparti of the poets, so these men mutually slay one another,
232 III, 8 | the controversies of those men. This teaches us what is
233 III, 8 | precepts of living from these men, who have no other feelings
234 III, 8 | learn wisdom from these men, who differ from cattle
235 III, 8 | something peculiar to man; but men desire I knowledge for the
236 III, 8 | according to the abilities of men? It only remains that the
237 III, 8 | what in the estimation of men constitutes a departure
238 III, 8 | error and perverseness of men a bad reputation should
239 III, 10 | knowledge of God; and among men themselves, there is no
240 III, 11 | religion and wisdom. But men are mistaken in this, that
241 III, 11 | knowledge of the truth. Thus men who undertake either of
242 III, 11 | an object proposed to all men. There is pleasure, which
243 III, 11 | constitute the greater part of men, must also be without pleasure.
244 III, 11 | fall to the lot of fewer men, and that generally by chance;
245 III, 11 | undoubtedly a good for all men. But if it cannot be happy
246 III, 12 | desired by all; for both old men and boys, kings and those
247 III, 12 | and the light itself, that men willingly undergo any miseries
248 III, 12 | general consent not only of men, but also of other animals,
249 III, 12 | good therefore which makes men happy cannot exist, unless
250 III, 13 | a system, is the part of men speaking inconsiderately,
251 III, 13 | only we, but the life of men, have effected at all without
252 III, 15 | does not see that those men are not teachers of virtue,
253 III, 15 | to be imitated by good men! Would you, in truth, entrust
254 III, 16 | of philosophy, to those men employed in civil affairs,
255 III, 16 | For it is right to make men good rather than to give
256 III, 16 | advantage to the business of men as enjoyment to their times
257 III, 16 | inasmuch as, when he said that men ought not to philosophize,
258 III, 16 | among the more ancient men did that love of investigating
259 III, 17 | attention to the conduct of men; the man who is unfeeling
260 III, 17 | that in wars the better men were especially overcome
261 III, 17 | the fact that religious men were especially visited
262 III, 17 | was the opinion of clever men respecting this is evident
263 III, 17 | who regards the actions of men: as long as the hope of
264 III, 17 | robbers were exhorting his men to acts of violence, what
265 III, 17 | there is no society among men; that every one consults
266 III, 18 | be avoided, if it drives men from life. But if Plato
267 III, 18 | had considered them to be men, he would never have claimed
268 III, 18 | of his Consolation that men were born for the sake of
269 III, 19 | AND OTHERS OF THE WISEST MEN TEACH THE IMMORTALITY OF
270 III, 19 | abodes. For those same wise men, he says, did not judge
271 III, 19 | evil, since it transfers men, as I have said, to everlasting
272 III, 19 | nothing in the affairs of men was ever spoken more foolishly.
273 III, 19 | order that he might prevent men from feeding on animals,
274 III, 19 | passed from the bodies of men to the bodies of other animals;
275 III, 19 | at Athens? Have not many men of distinguished talent
276 III, 20 | IN PHILOSOPHY THAN OTHER MEN, ALTHOUGH IN MANY THINGS
277 III, 20 | is considered impious for men to look upon. Therefore
278 III, 20 | though it is not lawful for men to approach them, were yet
279 III, 20 | were yet constructed by men. But these men not only
280 III, 20 | constructed by men. But these men not only escape the charge
281 III, 21 | in common; so that many men may flock together like
282 III, 21 | desire of one woman by many men. And in this Plato might
283 III, 21 | on this account, and of men, who have always carried
284 III, 22 | therefore, who wishes to place men on an equality, ought not
285 III, 22 | licentiousness of vices. For men who have many mistresses
286 III, 22 | in the possession of many men, must of necessity be not
287 III, 22 | contrary to the custom of men, and contrary to nature,
288 III, 22 | should have assigned to men wool and the loom, and the
289 III, 23 | therefore, the leading men among the philosophers are
290 III, 23 | may avoid death. So these men, without honour and without
291 III, 23 | would be no society among men, no care or system in the
292 III, 23 | safe, since the weakness of men would both be exposed to
293 III, 23 | that there another race of men live in a similar manner
294 III, 24 | to believe that there are men whose footsteps are higher
295 III, 24 | the earth uninhabited by men and the other animals. Thus
296 III, 25 | because none but learned men could attain to it. "Philosophy,"
297 III, 25 | avoids the concourse of men; since, if wisdom is given
298 III, 25 | is it to deny wisdom to men, than to take away from
299 III, 25 | compose a state of wise men. They attempted, indeed,
300 III, 25 | scarcely attained to by men of cultivated minds? Therefore,
301 III, 25 | studied language of eloquent men, what place is there for
302 III, 26 | exerted on the souls of men by the precepts of God,
303 III, 27 | the depraved judgments of men. Therefore there is no fruit
304 III, 27 | inasmuch as they either train men to vices, if they defend
305 III, 28 | or wishing to persuade men that nothing was completed
306 III, 28 | you fight against those men who perish by their own
307 III, 29 | though he himself and all men had knowledge. Then he who
308 III, 29 | is fortune which gives to men good and evil things. For
309 III, 29 | is a goddess, she envies men, and desires their destruction,
310 III, 29 | harasser of the race of men; why, in short, she has
311 III, 29 | should be as hostile to men as she is supposed to be.
312 III, 30 | up wisdom, which learned men, though they wasted their
313 IV, 1 | OF THE FORMER RELIGION OF MEN, AND HOW ERROR WAS SPREAD
314 IV, 1 | AGE, AND OF THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE.~WHEN I reflect,
315 IV, 1 | the original condition of men, it is accustomed to appear
316 IV, 1 | condition of human nature, since men did not seek the chief good
317 IV, 1 | and founder of all things, men began to worship the senseless
318 IV, 1 | necessarily be the case. For men ceased to raise their countenances
319 IV, 1 | greater trust was placed by men in evil, inasmuch as they
320 IV, 1 | taken away, then at length men began to claim for themselves
321 IV, 1 | esteemed and called wise men. O wretched and calamitous
322 IV, 1 | were called by the name of men, for no one can justly be
323 IV, 1 | renown of those seven wise men, it is incredible with how
324 IV, 1 | not call themselves wise men, but desirous of wisdom.
325 IV, 1 | themselves the name of wise men, of error and folly, and
326 IV, 2 | righteousness to become known to men of other nations. For God
327 IV, 3 | it instructs and improves men by no precepts of righteousness
328 IV, 4 | appears that there were men on the earth before the
329 IV, 6 | whom God gave for faithful men to honour."~And another
330 IV, 7 | angels, and another among men since He is called Jesus
331 IV, 7 | He is called Jesus among men: for Christ is not a proper
332 IV, 8 | terror into the minds of men, and overspread with darkness
333 IV, 10 | In the first place, then, men ought to know that the arrangements
334 IV, 10 | into the hands of wicked men, and might undergo death,
335 IV, 10 | the writings of those very men who treated with violence
336 IV, 10 | with this great host of his men, and rashly entering the
337 IV, 11 | God filled just and chosen men with the Holy Spirit, appointing
338 IV, 11 | and confounded: the wise men are dismayed and taken,
339 IV, 11 | had determined to send to men a teacher of righteousness,
340 IV, 12 | incarnate was about to come to men. For Emmanuel signifies
341 IV, 12 | He was born of a virgin, men ought to confess that God
342 IV, 12 | mortality, He might teach men righteousness; and when,
343 IV, 12 | removed from the affairs of men, a golden age (as the poets
344 IV, 13 | Ethiopia, and the Sabaeans, men of stature, shall come over
345 IV, 13 | upon earth, and dwelt among men." David also, in the forty-fourth
346 IV, 13 | if Apollo thus persuaded men ignorant of the truth, when
347 IV, 13 | the heart and faith of the men who believe on Him, and
348 IV, 14 | might endure tortures from men, and at last be extinguished.
349 IV, 14 | away from the memory of men (since even the Jews, who
350 IV, 14 | Son as an ambassador to men, that He might turn them
351 IV, 15 | Himself in the flesh to men, let us come to those wonderful
352 IV, 15 | the people, five thousand men were satisfied, and moreover
353 IV, 15 | shallsatisfy five thousand men in the wilderness; And afterwards
354 IV, 15 | waves, He shall release men~from disease. ~He shall
355 IV, 15 | shall be a satisfying of men."~Some, refuted by these
356 IV, 16 | defective beyond the rest of men. He is a man acquainted
357 IV, 17 | laboured for the good s of men; that He abolished circumcision;
358 IV, 17 | bearer of the will of God to men. In Deuteronomy he thus
359 IV, 17 | Thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah who dwell at Jerusalem,
360 IV, 22 | for Him to show Himself to men without the weakness incident
361 IV, 22 | not come as God to teach men? Why did He render Himself
362 IV, 22 | Him both to be despised by men and to be visited with punishment?
363 IV, 22 | knowledge, the hands of men? why did He not at least
364 IV, 22 | that God was tortured by men, but also will easily see
365 IV, 23 | ACTING.~If any one gives to men precepts for living, and
366 IV, 23 | if they place the life of men in the best condition, the
367 IV, 23 | number and assemblage of men among whom he acts; and
368 IV, 23 | in which he teaches that men ought to live, lest, by
369 IV, 23 | of the philosophers. For men prefer examples rather than
370 IV, 23 | distrusted; and if they shall be men, will be despised as inconsistent:
371 IV, 23 | presenting virtue to the eyes of men.~
372 IV, 24 | to instruct the life of men in the first principles
373 IV, 24 | For if He should come to men as God, not to mention that
374 IV, 24 | that he may impose upon men the necessity of obedience,
375 IV, 24 | them; because the nature of men is inclined to faults, and
376 IV, 24 | taken away this excuse from men, that no one may ascribe
377 IV, 24 | heavenly authority impose upon men the necessity of obedience;
378 IV, 24 | remains firm and fixed among men; and that he himself must
379 IV, 25 | BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.~Let men therefore learn and understand
380 IV, 25 | have been able to compel men to righteousness, unless
381 IV, 26 | the most eloquent of all men. For when the tongue has
382 IV, 26 | truth was opened by which men might walk to attain the
383 IV, 26 | to the completed times of men, to have revealed the secrets
384 IV, 26 | salutary precepts train men to innocence, and by works
385 IV, 26 | assistance to the humble and men of low degree, and might
386 IV, 26 | itself as to be the safety of men, hut it was an image of
387 IV, 27 | when He was living among men, limit to flight all the
388 IV, 27 | former senses the minds of men which had been excited and
389 IV, 27 | same polluted spirits from men. And it is not difficult
390 IV, 27 | complaining that profane men were present at the sacrifices,
391 IV, 27 | Nor, however, are blind men able to understand even
392 IV, 27 | protects, they harass them by men, and persecute them by the
393 IV, 27 | Jupiter knows not how to cure men, into the lane of AEsculapius
394 IV, 27 | order that they may lead men into errors, and call them
395 IV, 28 | lose the name of religious men, when it is plain from their
396 IV, 28 | supposed to be taken from men and received into heaven,
397 IV, 30 | reproach and mockery to men; lastly, that He should
398 V, 1 | I know the obstinacy of men; we shall never succeed
399 V, 1 | lacerated bodies. Such are the men with whom we now endeavour
400 V, 1 | to dispute: these are the men whom we would lead away
401 V, 1 | persuasion to the truth, men who would more readily drink
402 V, 1 | be derided by the learned men of this age, to whom his
403 V, 2 | HAS BEEN ASSAILED BY RASH MEN.~Therefore, because there
404 V, 2 | living at the same place two men who insulted the truth as
405 V, 2 | to remedy the errors of men, and to recall them to the
406 V, 2 | permit that inexperienced men should be enticed by the
407 V, 2 | and sustenance to crafty men. Therefore he said that
408 V, 2 | consulted the interests of men, in order that, impious
409 V, 2 | having been restrained, all men might have leisure for lawful
410 V, 3 | craftiness were absent from these men, since they were unskilful.
411 V, 3 | collected a band of nine hundred men, committed robberies. Who
412 V, 3 | kings desire. For why do men prepare for themselves magnificent
413 V, 3 | deserve the good opinions of men? Why, in short, have you
414 V, 4 | exhortation, learned and eloquent men shall begin to betake themselves
415 V, 5 | absent from the affairs of men; and they feigned that it,
416 V, 5 | offended with the vices of men, departed from the earth,
417 V, 5 | the plain with a boundary: men sought all things in common;"
418 V, 5 | that we may understand that men were so liberal, that they
419 V, 5 | is, he introduced among men hatred, and envy, and stratagem;
420 V, 5 | of God being taken away, men lost the knowledge of good
421 V, 6 | obtain for the common use of men, were now conveyed to the
422 V, 6 | themselves higher than other men, by a retinue of attendants,
423 V, 6 | tyranny by violence and armed men, and took away that golden
424 V, 6 | of justice, and compelled men to become wicked and impious,
425 V, 6 | and vices of a king, all men laid aside piety, lest,
426 V, 6 | with her the truth, left to men error, ignorance, and blindness.
427 V, 7 | desire, and anger drive men blindly to that object to
428 V, 7 | nature had given to all men equal affections, piety
429 V, 7 | although justice is sent to men, yet it cannot be said that
430 V, 8 | intelligence is left to you, that men are wicked and unjust because
431 V, 8 | increase to the affairs of men on this account, because
432 V, 8 | dissensions and wars, since men would~know that they are
433 V, 8 | and varying laws to rule men, since the law of God alone
434 V, 8 | infused into the breasts of men would of itself instruct
435 V, 8 | works of justice. But now men are wicked through ignorance
436 V, 8 | the same nature, so all men, being naturally confused
437 V, 8 | kept in mind, assuredly men would live the life of gods."
438 V, 9 | than those who are of all men innocent. Therefore most
439 V, 9 | innocent. Therefore most wicked men venture to make mention
440 V, 9 | make mention of justice, men who surpass wild beasts
441 V, 9 | things are done towards men, since for the same cause
442 V, 9 | and they retort upon just men reproaches which are befitting
443 V, 10 | the fire with the blood of men as with oil? But perhaps
444 V, 10 | when he was sending the men in chains to slaughter,
445 V, 10 | their enemies, who love all men as brethren, who know how
446 V, 10 | over-spread the breasts of men who, when they think themselves
447 V, 10 | offended with the wickedness of men who are depraved in their
448 V, 10 | adulteries and debaucheries with men and women are not only known
449 V, 10 | things is it possible for men to be just, who, although
450 V, 11 | and unpleasant to those men who agree with the character
451 V, 11 | account, that they were born men, though they have nothing
452 V, 11 | tears in pieces the limbs of men, but also breaks their very
453 V, 11 | more wretched than those men whom necessity has either
454 V, 12 | if there should be two men, and one of them should
455 V, 12 | death good and righteous men, as though they were wicked
456 V, 13 | persecution itself,--since men may commit sin, and be defiled
457 V, 13 | and anile superstition), men doubtless are wise. If boys,
458 V, 13 | God if they have corrupted men, when it is permitted them
459 V, 13 | when the people see that men are lacerated by various
460 V, 13 | aid of God. Robbers and men of robust frame are unable
461 V, 13 | our case (not to speak of men), boys and delicate women
462 V, 14 | praise? Seneca, in charging men with inconsistency, rightly
463 V, 15 | philosophers. And I could wish that men, so many and of such a character,
464 V, 15 | parents, may exist in those men who are ignorant of justice,
465 V, 15 | about to happen to those men who had begun to defend
466 V, 15 | produces and gives breath to men, willed that all should
467 V, 15 | justice, because they had men differing from one another
468 V, 16 | Riches also do not render men illustrious, except that
469 V, 16 | conspicuous by good works. For men are rich, not because they
470 V, 16 | frail and liable to decay, men both prefer themselves to
471 V, 16 | things. For as the wisdom of men is the greatest foolishness
472 V, 16 | himself on a level with other men, and carry himself with
473 V, 17 | disputation was this: "That men enacted laws for themselves,
474 V, 17 | natural law: that all, both men and other animals, were
475 V, 17 | happen without ruin, for men to be contented with poverty.
476 V, 18 | without reason who think that men of our religion are foolish
477 V, 18 | remove it from the eyes of men, when I shall have first
478 V, 18 | able to persuade any of men to live according to their
479 V, 18 | in perpetual peace with men? Doubtless he will be delighted
480 V, 18 | with parricides and guilty men, the wicked also should
481 V, 18 | fools, but as good and wise men. Therefore I do not see
482 V, 18 | appearance, through the error of men, who are ignorant of the
483 V, 18 | to correct the errors of men, and to bring them back
484 V, 20 | others, but endeavour to turn men aside to deadly rites, and
485 V, 20 | call them but miserable men, who obey the instigations
486 V, 20 | wish to be worshipped by men; what the piety of men contributes
487 V, 20 | by men; what the piety of men contributes to them, if
488 V, 20 | were instituted by crafty men, that the people may not
489 V, 20 | inclination the wretched men go astray ! For they are
490 V, 20 | that there is nothing among men more excellent than religion,
491 V, 20 | or reverence? But these men, when they come to offer
492 V, 20 | are neither able to make men good, nor to be firm and
493 V, 20 | and unchangeable. And thus men are easily led away from
494 V, 20 | prayer? But those unhappy men neither understand from
495 V, 21 | detestable altars. The wretched men are also angry, because
496 V, 21 | would need the assistance of men against their despisers.
497 V, 21 | in his Laws, enjoining men to approach with holiness
498 V, 21 | soul, it is a curse; when men sacrifice, compelled by
499 V, 21 | worthy of the detestation of men, since libations are made
500 V, 21 | God, who is the God of all men; nor are we angry if any