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1 I, pref| VALUE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.~
2 I, pref| pursuit of investigating the truth whatever labour could be
3 I, pref| of the knowledge of the truth, which they so greatly desired
4 I, pref| might follow the simple truth, and it alone. And so greatly
5 I, pref| name and authority of the truth prevail with them, that
6 I, pref| and industry; because the truth, that is the secret of the
7 I, pref| the investigation of the truth His own gift, so that He
8 I, pref| benefit and gift, because the truth lies hidden veiled in obscurity;
9 I, pref| able to plead the cause of truth with greater copiousness
10 I, pref| speaking; for although the truth may be defended without
11 I, 1 | who are seeking for the truth. But since the truth is
12 I, 1 | the truth. But since the truth is revealed from heaven
13 I, 1 | wisdom and the guide to truth, we call to ether all, without
14 I, 1 | soul than the knowledge of truth, to the maintaining and
15 I, 1 | more wonderful that the truth appears so obscure to men,
16 I, 1 | themselves against the manifest truth, not so much deserving well
17 I, 1 | gained the knowledge of the truth, shall have shaken off this
18 I, 2 | office of explaining the truth, I did not think it so necessary
19 I, 4 | who are ignorant of the truth do not think that these
20 I, 5 | the demonstration of the truth let us cite as witnesses
21 I, 5 | they had ascertained the truth, but that the force of the
22 I, 5 | but that the force of the truth itself is so great, that
23 I, 5 | information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather
24 I, 5 | while he dreads the unknown truth. For, as he wished it to
25 I, 5 | our poets to approach the truth, who thus speaks respecting
26 I, 5 | would have comprehended the truth, and gained the same learning
27 I, 5 | the investigation of the truth. Thales of Miletus, who
28 I, 5 | genius touched upon the truth, and almost grasped it,
29 I, 6 | are defending the cause of truth before those who err from
30 I, 6 | before those who err from the truth and serve false religions,
31 I, 11 | not far removed from the truth. For he who is without virtue,
32 I, 11 | fashioning, under which the truth was enwrapped and concealed;
33 I, 11 | Thus they so veiled the truth under a fiction, that the
34 I, 11 | under a fiction, that the truth itself detracted nothing
35 I, 11 | therefore inquire what degree of truth lies hid under this figure.
36 I, 11 | some resemblance to the truth, but are not true, because
37 I, 11 | Trismegistus attests the truth of this; for when he said
38 I, 12 | perhaps have happened in truth. But men, having regard
39 I, 14 | over them a guard."~The truth of this history is taught
40 I, 15 | sacred to his praise."~In truth, Liber and Pan, and Mercury
41 I, 15 | superstition. "Since, in truth,"~he says, "we see many
42 I, 15 | excessive grief. But, in truth, the whole of that speech,
43 I, 17 | do not perceive what the truth is, they attempt to join
44 I, 17 | him, being ignorant of the truth, as he himself simply acknowledges
45 I, 17 | but is ignorant of the truth. It is plain, therefore,
46 I, 18 | to me alone." Because, in truth, he extinguished and destroyed
47 I, 18 | this delusion. It is so in truth, he said, O Africanus, for
48 I, 20 | shameful. Anti when the truth is in question, ought disguises
49 I, 21 | nurse of Jupiter; if in truth the infant jupiter pressed
50 I, 23 | which seem to oppose the truth, we may be able to instruct
51 I, 23 | to the knowledge of the truth, than which no pleasure
52 II, 1 | God; so entirely does the truth of its own accord break
53 II, 1 | have withdrawn, then in truth they quickly hasten to the
54 II, 1 | is always hostile to the truth, which rejoices in the errors
55 II, 3 | undertake the advocacy of truth. But, as a wise man, you
56 II, 3 | profit you, that you saw the truth, which you were neither
57 II, 3 | unable to find it in its truth. And in this manner they
58 II, 3 | they might find out the truth by themselves; for I acknowledge
59 II, 3 | pointed out; but to know the truth is the part of divine wisdom.
60 II, 3 | could as easily find out the truth as I can refute false things."
61 II, 3 | delivered the knowledge of the truth; to the explaining of which
62 II, 4 | worshippers! Where, then, is truth? Where no violence can be
63 II, 4 | and to the hands, that, in truth, because it is perishable,
64 II, 4 | done to the gods. And, in truth, they display incredible
65 II, 4 | in. The same orator, in truth, when he affirmed that he
66 II, 4 | shrines." As though, in truth, if Verres had taken them
67 II, 4 | their position, he alone, in truth, retained his position while
68 II, 5 | he should deny it." We in truth firmly deny it; and we prove
69 II, 5 | duty. Oh, how difficult is truth to those who are ignorant
70 II, 5 | they are voluntary; nay, in truth, as it is plain that they
71 II, 6 | refuted not only by the truth, but even by their own words.
72 II, 7 | of their excellence and truth on this account. because
73 II, 7 | believed as ascertained truth. In short, in Cicero, Cotta
74 II, 7 | Pompilius to believe the truth of those sacred rites which
75 II, 8 | investigation and weighing of the truth, rather than through confidence
76 II, 8 | who have discovered the truth may hand down better things
77 II, 8 | captive on that day, the truth of which was proved by letters
78 II, 9 | very far from the way of truth. But I will retrace the
79 II, 9 | any, unacquainted with the truth and ignorant, shall apply
80 II, 9 | may understand what can in truth be "the source and origin
81 II, 9 | in his ignorance of the truth he imagined that the Deity
82 II, 9 | begun to strive against the truth, his arguments failed, and
83 II, 9 | assert that. As though, in truth, it were to be supposed
84 II, 9 | short, when God revealed the truth to man, He wished us only
85 II, 10 | Each saw something of the truth, and yet each was in error:
86 II, 11 | contact with a line of the truth; but the things which were
87 II, 11 | opinion, and distorted, as the truth is wont to be corrupted
88 II, 11 | introduced. And thus the truth was corrupted by falsehood;
89 II, 12 | from the knowledge of the truth, yet, inasmuch as he held
90 II, 14 | source and origin of the truth. Now let us return to the
91 II, 16 | those who are without the truth. For they think that those
92 II, 16 | uninitiated in the mystery of truth. But they fear the righteous,
93 II, 16 | the king. Each of them, in truth, affirms that the demons
94 II, 17 | for them to lay open the truth. These are they who taught
95 II, 17 | they have concealed the truth under false names, and withdrawn
96 II, 17 | they are enemies of the truth, and betrayers of God attempt
97 II, 17 | darkness, and overspread the truth with obscurity, that men
98 II, 17 | cannot distinguish from the truth; and therefore they imagine
99 II, 18 | persuasion altogether takes away truth and religion. But let this
100 II, 19 | object which counterfeits the truth by deception and imitation.
101 II, 20 | XX. OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE TRUTH.~A great and difficult portion
102 II, 20 | guidance of God and the truth, these also may be turned
103 II, 20 | them to believe that the truth which they have long sought
104 III, 1 | I. A COMPARISON OF THE TRUTH WITH ELOQUENCE: WHY THE
105 III, 1 | it is supposed that the truth still lies hidden in obscurity--
106 III, 1 | weight by its own force, the truth might at length come forth,
107 III, 1 | more readily believe the truth when adorned with embellishments,
108 III, 1 | that simple and undisguised truth should be more clear, because
109 III, 1 | eloquence, but upon the truth, that I have undertaken
110 III, 1 | even if I should fail, the truth itself will complete, with
111 III, 1 | ability, because the power of truth is so great that it defends
112 III, 1 | knowledge and learning of the truth, which no one can attain
113 III, 1 | those who wished to know the truth, because God has made the
114 III, 1 | desirous of arriving at the truth; but I assert and maintain
115 III, 1 | He Himself, as God, is truth. But we, since we have divine
116 III, 1 | how much surer arguments truth may be defended, when even
117 III, 1 | they had not learned the truth from Him in whose power
118 III, 2 | OCCUPATION IN SETTING FORTH THE TRUTH.~Now, since the falsehood
119 III, 2 | error being removed, the truth may be brought to light
120 III, 2 | wisdom, and not wise. Nay, in truth, Pythagoras, who first invented
121 III, 2 | the power of finding the truth were connected with this
122 III, 3 | Therefore they do not know the truth, because knowledge is concerned
123 III, 3 | known who has spoken the truth. It may possibly be that
124 III, 3 | some degree attained to the truth. Therefore we are foolish
125 III, 3 | refutes them to whom alone the truth is known, although He may
126 III, 4 | In which do we place the truth? It certainly cannot be
127 III, 6 | who had thought that the truth was drawn forth, and found
128 III, 6 | that the knowledge of the truth can be arrived at by conjecture.
129 III, 6 | without a knowledge of the truth, introduced a kind of philosophy
130 III, 8 | to the judge, who is in truth the giver of simple and
131 III, 11 | to the knowledge of the truth. Thus men who undertake
132 III, 11 | the duty of man, and all truth, are included in these two
133 III, 12 | undoubtedly have arrived at this truth, as I have lately shown.
134 III, 12 | good, have kept the way of truth, but have not arrived at
135 III, 13 | let them incline to the truth, and approach it. There
136 III, 13 | knowledge of divinity and the truth itself are sufficient. I
137 III, 14 | course of life. Of what truth can you hold her forth as
138 III, 14 | You applied yourself, in truth, to the study of philosophy,
139 III, 14 | you have discovered the truth. Doubtless it was in the
140 III, 14 | But how you confessed the truth of philosophy we learn from
141 III, 14 | deplorable ignorance of the truth." Where, then, is the guidance
142 III, 14 | deplorably ignorant of the truth? But if this confession
143 III, 14 | acknowledge to yourself the truth, that philosophy which,
144 III, 15 | of the world, God, and as truth is one; so wisdom must be
145 III, 15 | good men! Would you, in truth, entrust your children to
146 III, 16 | feared, since he spoke the truth; but as if he were afraid
147 III, 16 | love of investigating the truth lie hid? Lucretius also
148 III, 16 | same true wisdom. But, in truth, the Greeks, because they
149 III, 16 | to the sacred letters of truth, did not know how wisdom
150 III, 16 | discussion to tear up the truth which was lying hid and
151 III, 16 | through ignorance of the truth, they thought to be wisdom.~
152 III, 17 | because it brings forward any truth, but because the attractive
153 III, 17 | even a small particle of truth, he would never say that
154 III, 18 | because they perceive the truth, yet I cannot but blame
155 III, 18 | because they fell upon the truth not by their opinion, but
156 III, 18 | wretched ignorance of the truth.~
157 III, 19 | they know nothing of the truth, thus reason: If there is
158 III, 19 | is in possession of the truth. If any one, therefore,
159 III, 19 | produced by ignorance of the truth would altogether contend
160 III, 24 | by the resemblance of the truth, they necessarily fall into
161 III, 25 | indeed, to do that which truth required; but they were
162 III, 26 | of their simplicity and truth, is shown by daily proofs.
163 III, 27 | frequently approach the truth. But those precepts have
164 III, 27 | can be said with greater truth. But what if he shall be
165 III, 28 | in other cases, then in truth they are reminded of their
166 III, 28 | Democritus says that the truth lies sunk in a well so deep
167 III, 28 | says other things. For the truth is not, as it were, sunk
168 III, 28 | removed were they from the truth itself, that even the posture
169 III, 28 | admonish them, that the truth must be sought for by them
170 III, 29 | than in accordance with the truth. Philosophers, I say, ought
171 III, 29 | whom God has revealed the truth: who, as we know that fortune
172 III, 30 | widely deviating from the truth. I perceive, however, how
173 III, 30 | until Democritus draws forth truth from the well? or Empedocles
174 III, 30 | from heaven teaching the truth, and displaying to us a
175 III, 30 | wisdom, I showed where the truth is, yet the next book will
176 IV, 1 | of themselves, that the truth being taken away from their
177 IV, 1 | very subject, could the truth be perceived and ascertained.
178 IV, 1 | desire of inquiring into the truth all Greece was inflamed.
179 IV, 2 | the treasury of wisdom and truth, lest the secret of His
180 IV, 2 | love of searching out the truth, had penetrated as far as
181 IV, 2 | they might not know the truth, because it was not yet
182 IV, 3 | any investigation of the truth, but only the rite of worship,
183 IV, 3 | not able to conceive the truth, nor was the religious system
184 IV, 3 | and lords. Therefore the truth cannot be held where the
185 IV, 5 | must be ventured, that the truth may be made clear and brought
186 IV, 5 | who despise and refuse the truth, while it is concealed under
187 IV, 5 | desires to comprehend the truth ought not only to apply
188 IV, 5 | and fully ascertain the truth, he will also lay aside
189 IV, 5 | gained the knowledge of the truth.~
190 IV, 8 | the king;" testifying, in truth, that the works of God are
191 IV, 9 | is in agreement with the truth. For it is the spirit of
192 IV, 9 | searched into almost all truth, often described the excellence
193 IV, 9 | those who desire to know the truth.~
194 IV, 12 | sufficiently strong to prove the truth, when it is alleged by enemies
195 IV, 12 | the eighty-fourth Psalm, "Truth has sprung out of the earth;"
196 IV, 12 | because God, in whom is truth, hath taken a body of earth,
197 IV, 12 | God, He had revealed the truth to the nations, He might
198 IV, 13 | first verse he spoke the truth, but he skilfully deceived
199 IV, 13 | ignorant of the mystery of the truth. For he appears to have
200 IV, 13 | But being pressed by the truth, he could not deny the real
201 IV, 13 | been compelled to speak the truth, he now appeared to be a
202 IV, 13 | concealed that which the truth had extorted from him. He
203 IV, 13 | persuaded men ignorant of the truth, when the Jews also, worshippers (
204 IV, 16 | plan, and that goodness and truth and wisdom are contained
205 IV, 18 | Lord, and will not keep my truth, I will drive Israel from
206 IV, 20 | ignorant of God and of the truth, we have been enlightened
207 IV, 24 | comprehend nor receive the truth, unless it is taught from
208 IV, 26 | the contemplation of the truth. For they are truly blind
209 IV, 26 | who were destitute of the truth would both hear and understand
210 IV, 26 | speak respecting God and the truth. For he who is ignorant
211 IV, 26 | restrained, the path of truth was opened by which men
212 IV, 26 | life to the followers of truth. And although His passion,
213 IV, 26 | by those who follow the truth; since the truth is bitter,
214 IV, 26 | follow the truth; since the truth is bitter, and detested
215 IV, 26 | what great efficacy the truth itself is about to have
216 IV, 27 | to their control? But, in truth, the same demons, when adjured
217 IV, 27 | brought to the light of truth. For if any one desires
218 IV, 27 | Trismegistus arrived at the truth by some proof of this kind,
219 IV, 28 | is the cultivation of the truth, but superstition of that
220 IV, 30 | instigation of demons, the truth must be briefly marked out
221 IV, 30 | reply to the accusers of the truth, who objected that it was
222 IV, 30 | This is the fountain of truth, this is the abode of the
223 IV, 30 | ignorant of the secret of the truth. Afterwards, in a particular
224 V, 1 | compelled at length to yield, truth itself crying out. They
225 V, 1 | innocence itself; as though, in truth, it were a greater injustice
226 V, 1 | those who follow the path of truth; and when they are able
227 V, 1 | foolish persuasion to the truth, men who would more readily
228 V, 1 | in virtues and wiser in truth. Moreover, even though it
229 V, 1 | engaged in the light of truth, which is the food of the
230 V, 1 | sound minds to which the truth may be pleasing, and which
231 V, 1 | estimates a subject by its truth, but by its embellishment.
232 V, 1 | endeavours to overpower the truth, that it may show its power;
233 V, 1 | to pass that wisdom and truth need suitable heralds. And
234 V, 1 | suitable a maintainer of the truth he might have been, if he
235 V, 2 | AN EXTENT THE CHRISTIAN TRUTH HAS BEEN ASSAILED BY RASH
236 V, 2 | defend the whole cause of truth with elegance and copiousness,
237 V, 2 | venture to write against the truth, which was unknown to them.
238 V, 2 | two men who insulted the truth as it lay prostrate and
239 V, 2 | their property. This man, in truth, who overthrew his own arguments
240 V, 2 | would instruct others to the truth, of which he himself had
241 V, 2 | was removed from faith and truth. He chiefly, however, assailed
242 V, 3 | III. OF THE TRUTH OF THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE,
243 V, 3 | such because he was so in truth. I do not say this, he says,
244 V, 3 | endeavoured utterly to destroy the truth, he dared to give to his
245 V, 3 | the name of falsehood to truth, and of truth to falsehood.
246 V, 3 | falsehood to truth, and of truth to falsehood. Doubtless
247 V, 3 | ignorance, not from malice: what truth, however, have you brought
248 V, 4 | by the consciousness of truth itself, and (as I think)
249 V, 4 | and clamouring against the truth. Which subject he did not
250 V, 4 | who was ignorant of the truth, he ought for a while to
251 V, 4 | speaking in this field of truth, no one can doubt that false
252 V, 5 | poetic fiction, but as the truth. For, while Saturnus reigned,
253 V, 6 | his own father? Whom, in truth, should he fear, who had
254 V, 6 | and drawing with her the truth, left to men error, ignorance,
255 V, 9 | persevering hatred?~"Does truth produce hatred,"~as the
256 V, 9 | from both causes? For the truth is always hateful on this
257 V, 11 | the torture: as though, in truth, death alone could make
258 V, 12 | ignorant of affairs and of truth? Is justice so hateful to
259 V, 12 | not inconsistent with the truth, in that disputation which
260 V, 13 | turned away from God, for the truth prevails by its own power,--
261 V, 16 | changed, all virtue and all truth are taken away, and justice
262 V, 18 | of life. But we show the truth of our statements not only
263 V, 18 | examples derived from the truth. Therefore Carneades understood
264 V, 18 | wished to show that the truth lay hidden, that he might
265 V, 18 | indeed, reason and the truth itself dictate. For we see
266 V, 19 | manifest that ignorance of the truth makes your opinion uncertain
267 V, 19 | folly, that the mystery of truth and of His religion might
268 V, 20 | departs from us, since the truth itself detains him. Let
269 V, 20 | have any confidence in the truth; let them speak, let them
270 V, 20 | difference there is between truth and falsehood; for they
271 V, 20 | the matter itself and the truth speaks. Why then do they
272 V, 20 | nor is it possible for truth to be united with violence,
273 V, 20 | because we have preferred truth to falsehood? But, they
274 V, 22 | worshipped by us, but because the truth is on our side, which (as
275 V, 22 | abandoned spirits by whom the truth is both known and hated
276 VI, 1 | Spirit, and the aid of the truth itself; the cause of asserting
277 VI, 1 | permitted, I defended the truth, yet it may especially be
278 VI, 2 | those who do not know the truth, how much more ought we
279 VI, 3 | Both therefore spoke with truth, but yet both incorrectly;
280 VI, 3 | setting: since he who follows truth and righteousness, having
281 VI, 3 | to virtues, falsehood to truth, must be borne to the setting
282 VI, 4 | self-restraint, concord, knowledge, truth, wisdom, and the other virtues;
283 VI, 4 | drive them from the way of truth. He inflames others with
284 VI, 4 | grasp and hold fast the truth. Thus he has blocked up
285 VI, 5 | us in opening to us the truth. He says that it is virtue
286 VI, 6 | copies made by nature and truth." It is then a delineation
287 VI, 7 | THE WAY OF ERROR AND OF TRUTH: THAT IT IS SINGLE, NARROW,
288 VI, 7 | things which resembled the truth? For, that His immortal
289 VI, 7 | turning away from wisdom and truth, which they were searching
290 VI, 7 | some distinction between truth and falsehood, good and
291 VI, 7 | this way--which is that of truth, and wisdom, and virtue,
292 VI, 8 | from the knowledge of the truth has set forth that law?
293 VI, 9 | through ignorance of the truth and of the chief good; since
294 VI, 9 | the eyes of his mind the truth in which God is, or God
295 VI, 9 | God is, or God in whom the truth is; he hears, who imprints
296 VI, 11 | measure all things not by the truth itself, but by present utility.
297 VI, 12 | nor must we require the truth from him who admits that
298 VI, 12 | a kind of inkling of the truth, they wandered to a less
299 VI, 13 | faults to blot out. Nay, in truth, he is then more bound to
300 VI, 14 | it is undertaken for the truth, becomes shamelessness.
301 VI, 16 | did not even approach the truth, who allow that they are
302 VI, 17 | and not desire; but, in truth, the inclination is not
303 VI, 18 | purpose), to whom alone the truth has been revealed by God,
304 VI, 18 | unlawful for him who cultivates truth to be deceitful in anything,
305 VI, 18 | and to depart from the truth itself which he follows.
306 VI, 20 | in the Cato Major: "In truth, debaucheries, and adulteries,
307 VI, 20 | children; as though, in truth, their means were in the
308 VI, 21 | he who is anxious for the truth, who does not wish to deceive
309 VI, 24 | can be spoken with greater truth by him who knew God, than
310 VI, 24 | upon the very fountain of truth, by perceiving that the
311 VII, 1 | who are desirous of the truth, that the philosophers did
312 VII, 1 | not see nor comprehend the truth; but that they had so slight
313 VII, 1 | out in any way against the truth with closed eyes. But they
314 VII, 1 | respecting virtue and the truth, are bitter and as poisons
315 VII, 2 | who are ignorant of the truth. It has been so determined
316 VII, 2 | without the knowledge of the truth and of heavenly things.
317 VII, 2 | entirely perceiving the truth. Therefore there is no human
318 VII, 2 | conception and knowledge of the truth; inasmuch as the mind of
319 VII, 2 | clearly to perceive the truth, the knowledge of which
320 VII, 2 | be far removed from the truth, because they who established
321 VII, 3 | reach nor see the shrine of truth. Therefore, as I said a
322 VII, 5 | does not possess this, the truth altogether glides away from
323 VII, 5 | which the whole system of truth depends. It does not escape
324 VII, 7 | PHILOSOPHERS, AND THEIR TRUTH.~And because the philosophers
325 VII, 7 | neither able to comprehend truth, although they for the most
326 VII, 7 | show that almost the whole truth has been divided by philosophers
327 VII, 7 | to see something of the truth. But while they are mad
328 VII, 7 | though true, not only has the truth escaped from them, which
329 VII, 7 | to collect together the truth which was dispersed amongst
330 VII, 7 | experience and knowledge of the truth. But to know the truth belongs
331 VII, 7 | the truth. But to know the truth belongs to him only who
332 VII, 7 | divine testimonies, yet the truth would explain itself by
333 VII, 7 | a nearer approach to the truth, for the whole truth has
334 VII, 7 | the truth, for the whole truth has been comprised by these
335 VII, 7 | philosophers touched upon the whole truth, and every secret of our
336 VII, 8 | to prove and fill up the truth, since he had neither summed
337 VII, 8 | although he perceived the truth respecting the immortality
338 VII, 8 | are able to elicit the truth by more certain signs; for
339 VII, 8 | did not know what was the truth. "Which of these opinions
340 VII, 8 | has laid open to us the truth.~
341 VII, 12 | but he was overcome by the truth, and the true system stole
342 VII, 12 | things which are against the truth.~
343 VII, 13 | whom they who reject the truth cannot but believe. Hermes,
344 VII, 14 | to the knowledge of the truth, know the beginning and
345 VII, 14 | works, so His religion and truth must labour during these
346 VII, 15 | kindness, nor shame, nor truth; and thus also there will
347 VII, 15 | the people who kept the truth. Hystaspes also,who was
348 VII, 16 | mankind will follow. Then, in truth, a detestable and abominable
349 VII, 17 | righteous and the followers of truth shall separate themselves
350 VII, 19 | shall fight against the truth, and being overcome shall
351 VII, 20 | These things are near to the truth. For the semi, when separated
352 VII, 22 | which is different from the truth; for although they are much
353 VII, 22 | corrupted the secrets of the truth, yet the matter itself is
354 VII, 22 | discourses, changed the truth. For inasmuch as they foretold
355 VII, 22 | hands, not by reason or truth, but by dreadful laceration
356 VII, 25 | persons who revile us, the truth is preserved, which they
357 VII, 26 | who are ignorant of the truth, and who rigorously assail
358 VII, 26 | accursed and impious. Since the truth now comes forth from obscurity,
359 VII, 26 | thy acknowledgment of the truth and of God in every action,