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  1    I, pref|         natural severity, which the nature of men inclined to vices
  2    I, 2   |            those which treat of the nature of the gods. And it was
  3    I, 3   |             the same power. But the nature of excellence admits of
  4    I, 3   |        government of the affairs of nature, unless there shall be one
  5    I, 4   |            utterly foreign to their nature as a system of deceit, when
  6    I, 5   |             his mind the origin and nature of this Being, he said that
  7    I, 5   |         Thus, under the guidance of nature and reason, he understood
  8    I, 5   |     perceived under the guidance of nature, they would have comprehended
  9    I, 5   |           universe, and through all nature, from which all living creatures
 10    I, 5   |           many, but that the God of nature was one only; that is, the
 11    I, 5   |       providence. For whether it be nature, or aether, or reason, or
 12    I, 5   |           Him Aether, or Reason, or Nature, but, as He truly is, God,
 13    I, 5   |            he argues respecting the nature of the gods in this way: "
 14    I, 5   |           obedient or subject to no nature; consequently He Himself
 15    I, 5   | consequently He Himself governs all nature." But what God Himself is
 16    I, 5   |    commencing this work, than which nature has known nothing greater
 17    I, 7   |            he has confessed, as the nature of the matter is, in what
 18    I, 8   |             so far removed from the nature of God as that operation
 19    I, 10  |     adultery, which is done against nature. Whether he who committed
 20    I, 11  |        manner, or the cause, or the nature of that which is represented
 21    I, 11  |       daughter. From which his real nature is evident; nor is it lawful
 22    I, 11  |             treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said
 23    I, 12  |             treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods. They held,
 24    I, 12  |            the highest and ethereal nature of heaven, that is, of fire,
 25    I, 12  |             the sun, in whom is the nature and cause of the productive
 26    I, 12  |        origin of all things and all nature would have perished. Why
 27    I, 15  |      teaches in his treatise on the Nature of the Gods, saying "But
 28    I, 17  |           third book respecting the Nature of the Gods altogether overthrows
 29   II, 1   |         break forth by the force of nature even from unwilling breasts.
 30   II, 1   |             heaven, and observe the nature of their own body, the origin
 31   II, 1   |             most incorrect that the nature of the body, which is temporary,
 32   II, 1   |    forgetful both of their name and nature, cast down their eyes from
 33   II, 3   |   opposition to the design of their nature, prostrate themselves to
 34   II, 5   |          comprises the phenomena of nature, with these three verses:--~"
 35   II, 8   |         other examples of a similar nature may be brought forward;
 36   II, 9   |   excellence, and His name, and His nature must be related by us. Let
 37   II, 9   |        Cicero, while discussing the nature of the gods, thus speaks: "
 38   II, 9   |            and has had, a force and nature of its own. As therefore
 39   II, 9   |         always has had, a force and nature of its own. What force could
 40   II, 9   |            any one to give it? what nature, without any one to produce
 41   II, 9   |          God? Moreover, if it had a nature, which plainly is so called
 42   II, 9   |          existence, except God? For nature, from which you say that
 43   II, 9   |          says better, who saw "that nature was nothing else but God."
 44   II, 9   |       Himself, since God Himself is nature. When, therefore, you assign
 45   II, 9   |             origin of all things to nature, and take it from God, you
 46   II, 9   |            the other. Therefore the nature of that which is eternal
 47   II, 9   |        which he might take away the nature of the gods, respecting
 48   II, 9   |      consists of matter, existed by nature; though I contend that nature
 49   II, 9   |       nature; though I contend that nature itself is God. For no one
 50   II, 10  |             is from heaven; and its nature, inasmuch as it is moveable
 51   II, 10  |            earthly element. And the nature of this, because it is moveable,
 52   II, 12  |           rent by the compulsion of nature, produced tender animals;
 53   II, 12  |           men, He Himself mixed the nature of all belonging to the
 54   II, 13  |         concluded and completed the nature of those two materials which
 55   II, 13  |             in verse respecting the nature of things, as did Lucretius
 56   II, 13  |       indeed are not false; for the nature of earth is contained in
 57   II, 13  |       elements are found, the whole nature of which is included in
 58   II, 13  |           is the dissolution of the nature of living beings; or thus:
 59   II, 14  |             ignorance of the divine nature. From this nation all the
 60   II, 15  |           dignity of their heavenly nature. He plainly prohibited them
 61   II, 15  |             bearing a kind of mixed nature, were not admitted into
 62   II, 16  |   ESTABLISHED IN THE FAITH.~And the nature of all these deceits is
 63   II, 18  |        which the condition of their nature has directed, and that we
 64   II, 19  |           maintain a regard for his nature, let him raise himself from
 65   II, 19  |          ought to be mindful of his nature and condition, and always
 66  III, 1   |           has willed this to be the nature of the case, that simple
 67  III, 1   |            because God has made the nature of man most desirous of
 68  III, 3   |            man, but to God. But the nature of mortals does not receive
 69  III, 3   |            been mentioned which the nature of the circumstances admits,
 70  III, 4   |             poet testifies; for the nature of men is so arranged, that
 71  III, 4   |             be torn asunder? If the nature of things can be known,
 72  III, 5   |         there are many things which nature itself, and frequent use,
 73  III, 5   |            been discovered, and the nature of bodies, and the strength
 74  III, 5   |         cultivators of the land the nature of soils, and signs of future
 75  III, 7   |          Zeno, to live agreeably to nature; that of certain Stoics,
 76  III, 8   |            affords this to man, but nature herself bestows it upon
 77  III, 8   |             live in accordance with nature. Therefore we must live
 78  III, 8   |             me to live according to nature, which is of itself prone
 79  III, 8   |              Or if he says that the nature of brutes is different from
 80  III, 8   |        brutes is different from the nature of man, because man is born
 81  III, 8   |         live in accordance with its nature. He who made knowledge the
 82  III, 8   |           though they discussed the nature of good and evil things,
 83  III, 8   |          yet from the compulsion of nature lived in a manner different
 84  III, 8   |            good things are by their nature arduous and difficult, whereas
 85  III, 9   |            good of true wisdom, the nature of which is to be determined
 86  III, 9   |    contribute to the heaven and the nature of things? Doubtless that
 87  III, 10  |            the heaven, to which the nature of the body calls us. And
 88  III, 10  |             or that we may know the nature of the heavenly objects.
 89  III, 10  |        cannot by any means know the nature of the heavenly objects,
 90  III, 10  |             they remember their own nature and condition.~
 91  III, 11  |           God willed this to be the nature of man, that he should be
 92  III, 11  |         happy because its power and nature consist in the endurance
 93  III, 12  |    certainly understood what is the nature of the chief good, although
 94  III, 14  |             first who discussed the nature of things. Thus, while he
 95  III, 15  |            that which is right, but nature which often impels even
 96  III, 16  |            says:--~"Then, too, this nature and system of things has
 97  III, 16  |            is in agreement with the nature of man, it must have had
 98  III, 16  |            agreement with it, human nature would be incapable of receiving
 99  III, 17  |            that there is no bond of nature. To the man who is delicate
100  III, 17  |          notice of the eyes. If the nature of all things is the same,
101  III, 18  |            to pass, or what was the nature of man. Many therefore of
102  III, 19  |             the gods, that is, to a nature resembling their own. But
103  III, 19  |              that he gave thanks to nature, first that he was born
104  III, 19  |       reason can no more change the nature of its condition, than fire
105  III, 20  |         others who thought that the nature of things could be comprehended
106  III, 20  |            ought not to discuss the nature of heavenly things, he was
107  III, 20  |       unable even to comprehend the nature of those things which he
108  III, 21  |    therefore, is lost to him alone, nature herself crying out against
109  III, 22  |             of men, and contrary to nature, chose more foolish objects
110  III, 23  |           human life. For since the nature of man is more feeble than
111  III, 23  |             which are of a solitary nature, there would be no society
112  III, 24  |         they reply that such is the nature of things, that heavy bodies
113  III, 24  |    enumerated a few, from which the nature of the others may be understood.~
114  III, 25  |            divine light? But if the nature of man is capable of wisdom,
115  III, 26  |          required by the demands of nature, but which they were themselves
116  III, 26  |             they are overpowered by nature. But what influence is exerted
117  III, 26  |           person nor themselves (if nature has presented any obstacle).
118  III, 28  |             OF TRUE RELIGION AND OF NATURE. WHETHER FORTUNE IS A GODDESS,
119  III, 28  |          religion gains the name of nature. For they, either being
120  III, 28  |             intelligence, said that nature was the mother of all things,
121  III, 28  |            their own ignorance. For nature, apart from divine providence
122  III, 28  |       nothing. But if they call God nature, what perverseness is it,
123  III, 28  |           is it, to use the name of nature rather than of God! But
124  III, 28  |          rather than of God! But if nature is the plan, or necessity,
125  III, 28  |      existence to all things. Or if nature is heaven and earth. and
126  III, 28  |        everything which is created. nature is not God, but the work
127  III, 29  |         however, they call this god nature, sometimes fortune, "because
128  III, 29  |             introduced the names of Nature and Fortune. But as they
129   IV, 1   |          nor the condition of human nature, since men did not seek
130   IV, 1   |          not deny. For wherever the nature of the subject had, as it
131   IV, 3   |           BE SEPARATED: THE LORD OF NATURE MUST NECESSARILY BE THE
132   IV, 3   |           is not in accordance with nature, may be inferred and conceived
133   IV, 3   |             after one name." But if nature does not permit that one
134   IV, 3   |            many gods is contrary to nature, and contrary to piety.
135   IV, 3   |      therefore, by the necessity of nature, there cannot be more than
136   IV, 3   |           contrary to reason and to nature, since there cannot be many
137   IV, 10  |             and bring to man, whose nature He had put on and represented,
138   IV, 13  |            hand this frail and weak nature of ours, and raise it to
139   IV, 22  |          withdrawn from an immortal nature. They say, in short, that
140   IV, 23  |          but this is so contrary to nature, that all animals are subject
141   IV, 23  |            it is possible to resist nature, do you yourself practise
142   IV, 23  |             of the frailty of man's nature. It remains that words should
143   IV, 24  |          heaven, to whom His divine nature gives knowledge, and His
144   IV, 24  |          practise them; because the nature of men is inclined to faults,
145   IV, 26  |           is ignorant of the divine nature, he truly is speechless
146   IV, 26  |         discharge the office of its nature; but as long as it speaks
147   IV, 27  |          which both understands the nature of demons, and understands
148   IV, 28  |          second book respecting the nature of the gods he thus speaks: "
149    V, 1   |     possible, by the right of human nature, that he should not condemn
150    V, 3   |           contrary? For this is the nature of falsehoods, that they
151    V, 7   |          from the good; nor can the nature of the one be understood
152    V, 7   |          not exclude evil, that the nature of virtue might be evident.
153    V, 7   |           because it is provided by nature that hatred, desire, and
154    V, 7   |         power of man. Otherwise, if nature had given to all men equal
155    V, 8   |       depends upon one and the same nature, so all men, being naturally
156    V, 9   |          censure, but to show their nature. Let those who shall wish
157    V, 10  |            you were ignorant of the nature of piety, and you believed
158    V, 13  |            account of the wonderful nature of the virtue displayed.
159    V, 15  |          errors. Justice by its own nature has a certain appearance
160    V, 15  |         none on the earth, that its nature or qualities might be perceived
161    V, 17  |            borne by the guidance of nature to their own advantage;
162    V, 18  |    Carneades understood what is the nature of justice, except that
163    V, 18  |            are destitute of wisdom, nature is the provider of supplies
164    V, 18  |            the right way; since the nature of man is social and beneficent,
165    V, 20  |          nor origin, nor names, nor nature; but, clinging to the persuasion
166    V, 20  |           with us something of this nature; and then assuredly their
167   VI, 2   |              because its system and nature are dark. Therefore they
168   VI, 3   |             own accord succeed. The nature of good and evil things
169   VI, 4   |           his rage according to the nature and disposition of each.
170   VI, 5   |          rightly defined, as to its nature, or in what things it consisted;
171   VI, 5   |             but lost its power, and nature, and effect. But whatever
172   VI, 5   |        virtue for a man to know the nature of everything.~It is virtue
173   VI, 5   |             actions. But though the nature of good and evil does not
174   VI, 5   |             definition, because the nature of the case is such that
175   VI, 6   |        price itself, either of what nature or what it is; for the poet,
176   VI, 6   |            excellent copies made by nature and truth." It is then a
177   VI, 8   |         right reason, agreeing with nature, diffused among all, unchanging,
178   VI, 8   |         himself, and, despising the nature of man, will suffer the
179   VI, 10  |        every law and right of human nature, plunder, torture, slay,
180   VI, 10  |    themselves together, because the nature of men avoided solitude,
181   VI, 11  |          not in accordance with the nature of man; and that expression
182   VI, 11  |             while he is obedient to nature, cannot injure man. Therefore,
183   VI, 11  |     Therefore, if it is contrary to nature to injure a man, it must
184   VI, 11  |          must be in accordance with nature to benefit a man; and he
185   VI, 11  |    therefore, in casualties of this nature which imperil the life of
186   VI, 11  |           they neither retain their nature, nor know what reward there
187   VI, 12  |          did not do that which both nature itself and relationship
188   VI, 12  |      required. But in what does the nature of justice more consist
189   VI, 14  |           so much inserted in us by nature as undertaken through a
190   VI, 14  |             the force and system of nature.~
191   VI, 15  |      natural and not voluntary, the nature of all living beings shows,
192   VI, 15  |             how necessarily God, or nature (for so they term it), armed
193   VI, 15  |           much as is sufficient for nature. Not an unwise disputation,
194   VI, 15  |          powers implanted in him by nature. And this is equivalent
195   VI, 15  |            is to wish to change the nature of the living creature.
196   VI, 15  |          that they are implanted by nature, and that without these
197   VI, 15  |            wished, contrary to what nature allowed, to take away that
198   VI, 17  |         fortitude? By no means. For nature does not appear to admit
199   VI, 17  |   impossible, because its force and nature consist in motion, but it
200   VI, 18  |          not in accordance with the nature of man? For if you provoke
201   VI, 18  |    impossible and useless to resist nature, so that we are not excited
202   VI, 19  |           necessarily pervert their nature, and be changed into diseases
203   VI, 20  |          for the necessity of their nature: they see, in order that
204   VI, 20  |        those of pleasure. And since nature or some God has given to
205   VI, 20  |         intercourse with men, or in nature or workmanship. The philosophers
206   VI, 25  |             no means understand the nature of the Divine Being, a gift
207  VII, 2   |         which belongs to the divine nature. For His works are known
208  VII, 3   |                             III. OF NATURE, AND OF THE WORLD; AND A
209  VII, 3   |     philosophers, the Stoics divide nature into two parts--the one
210  VII, 3   |    comprehend under the one name of nature two things which are most
211  VII, 3   |         though God were mixed up in nature with the world. For sometimes
212  VII, 3   |           set in order the glorious nature of the world"--~then he
213  VII, 4   |          appears from the wonderful nature of its works, it must be
214  VII, 4   |          account, that, knowing the nature of good and evil things,
215  VII, 5   |        nourishment according to the nature and requirements of each
216  VII, 5   |             given to virtue, not to nature, because God wished that
217  VII, 5   |            an end; to which subject nature and the system of the body
218  VII, 5   |           is not the consequence of nature, but the reward and recompense
219  VII, 5   |           on all fours, because the nature of his body and of this
220  VII, 5   |            have said above that the nature of man is made up of opposing
221  VII, 5   |            of those things with the nature of which he had at once
222  VII, 6   |           Why, in short, should all nature labour that nothing may
223  VII, 8   |            direct our course; human nature regards this; to this virtue
224  VII, 8   |          the heaven, and to its own nature. This is a brief summary
225  VII, 9   |            world was established by nature, and not by providence.
226  VII, 9   |          when he has considered the nature of other animals, which
227  VII, 9   |             the impulse of its very nature perceiving either from what
228  VII, 9   |             element. For, since the nature of the world consists of
229  VII, 9   |           not be in accordance with nature if the soul is extinguished;
230  VII, 9   |             sensations, injures the nature of living beings, and endeavours
231  VII, 9   |             an evil, and opposed to nature; and he must necessarily
232  VII, 10  |           must undergo according to nature, the other relating to the
233  VII, 12  |           each returns into its own nature; that which was of earth
234  VII, 13  |              Hermes, describing the nature of man, that he might show
235  VII, 13  |            and the mortal--made one nature, that of man, making the
236  VII, 13  |             the midst, between that nature which was divine and immortal,
237  VII, 13  |         they did not comprehend the nature of the soul, which is so
238  VII, 13  |          those things the force and nature of which are rather felt
239  VII, 14  |          and this admirable work of nature in the space of six days,
240  VII, 17  |             and against the laws of nature. Thus the earth shall be
241  VII, 20  |     passions, have a kind of middle nature, between that of an immortal
242  VII, 20  |         souls are given over to its nature, so that, though they cannot
243  VII, 21  |           and everlasting fire, the nature of which is different from
244  VII, 21  |           and to fly upwards to the nature of heaven, with a tremulous
245  VII, 22  |         Plato, while discussing the nature of the soul, says that it
246  VII, 24  |       itself shall rejoice, and all nature exult, being rescued and
247  VII, 26  |              They indeed perhaps by nature only resembled the righteous.