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| Alphabetical [« »] cherishes 1 chessmen 1 chests 2 chief 113 chiefly 5 chiefs 2 chieftain 1 | Frequency [« »] 116 foolish 116 give 114 her 113 chief 111 indeed 111 she 109 always | Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius The divine institutes IntraText - Concordances chief |
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1 I, 3 | that there is still one chief ruler. The others, therefore,
2 I, 5 | assert that the air is the chief deity; and to this opinion
3 I, 6 | addressed to Caius Caesar the chief pontiff, when he was speaking
4 I, 10| Father Liber should be of chief authority, and of the first
5 I, 11| their Capitol, that is the chief head of their ~objects of
6 I, 11| supposed, how can he be the chief God, since he owes his origin
7 I, 13| the rest, and to have the chief place, but not the kingdom;
8 I, 17| more plain, more true? The chief of the Roman philosophy,
9 I, 20| ignorance of the principal and chief good. When their city was
10 I, 21| Bibaculus is regarded among the chief examples of piety, who,
11 II, 3 | pardoned, because they hold the chief duty of man, if not in reality,
12 II, 9 | Peripatetics, who are the chief of every sect. In short,
13 II, 10| things are found to be of chief importance, which have power
14 II, 17| from pestilence. For the chief of the demons was himself
15 III, 3 | CONSISTS, AND WHO WAS THE CHIEF FOUNDER OF THE ACADEMIC
16 III, 6 | detracting from Zeno, the chief of the Stoics, that he might
17 III, 7 | MORAL PHILOSOPHY, AND THE CHIEF GOOD.~Let us now pass to
18 III, 7 | especially that which is the chief and principal thing, in
19 III, 7 | Epicurus deems that the chief good consists in pleasure
20 III, 7 | pain, Hieronymus placed the chief good in the absence of pain;
21 III, 7 | the body, and fortune. The chief good of Herillus is knowledge;
22 III, 7 | virtue. Aristotle placed the chief good in integrity and virtue.
23 III, 8 | VIII. OF THE CHIEF GOOD, AND THE PLEASURES
24 III, 8 | respecting the duty of man, the chief good of the chief animal
25 III, 8 | man, the chief good of the chief animal ought to be placed
26 III, 8 | pleasure of the mind is the chief good, since that, whether
27 III, 8 | they give, but that the chief good is bodily pleasure?--
28 III, 8 | the absence of pain as the chief good, is not indeed the
29 III, 8 | ridiculous, as to esteem that the chief good which the physician
30 III, 8 | absence of pain was the chief good. For, besides the fact
31 III, 8 | more than wish? But the chief good cannot make any one
32 III, 8 | destitute of pleasure. The chief good of the Peripatetics
33 III, 8 | times dreams of virtue. The chief good, he says, is to live
34 III, 8 | not be a definition of the chief good, because there is no
35 III, 8 | He who made knowledge the chief good, gave something peculiar
36 III, 8 | That, therefore, is not the chief good which is not sought
37 III, 8 | consider knowledge to be the chief good, or those very things
38 III, 8 | therefore they are not the chief goods; for the desire of
39 III, 8 | that knowledge is not the chief good. Moreover, it is no
40 III, 8 | good and evil things is the chief good. Why, then, did he
41 III, 8 | did he call knowledge the chief good more than wisdom, when
42 III, 8 | one has yet said that the chief good is wisdom, though this
43 III, 8 | virtue itself to be the chief good, and Marcus Tullius
44 III, 8 | virtue itself is not the chief good, but it is the contriver
45 III, 8 | contriver and mother of the chief good; for this cannot be
46 III, 8 | labour, it cannot be the chief good. For why should we
47 III, 8 | virtue which is called the chief good; but this is incongruous
48 III, 8 | of labours. Therefore the chief good cannot be that by which
49 III, 8 | together with honour was the chief good; as though it were
50 III, 9 | IX. OF THE CHIEF GOOD, AND THE WORSHIP OF
51 III, 9 | ANAXAGORAS.~I now come to the chief good of true wisdom, the
52 III, 9 | time what was fixed as the chief good for man. Anaxagoras,
53 III, 10| WORSHIP GOD.~Therefore the chief good of man is in religion
54 III, 11| RELIGION, WISDOM, AND THE CHIEF GOOD.~It is agreed upon,
55 III, 11| and dwelling-place of the chief good. For they might have
56 III, 11| Therefore pleasure is not the chief good; but it is not even
57 III, 11| does not constitute the chief good: for all cannot reign,
58 III, 11| capable of attaining the chief good. Let us therefore seek
59 III, 11| it assuredly is not the chief good. Let us seek something
60 III, 11| cannot appear to be the chief good in any other way than
61 III, 12| others, say that that was the chief good which was unvarying
62 III, 12| what is the nature of the chief good, although he did not
63 III, 12| taught them in what the chief good consisted. But this
64 III, 12| also belongs to him. The chief good, therefore, is found
65 III, 12| we may believe that our chief good is in the highest place.
66 III, 12| knowledge or virtue as the chief good, have kept the way
67 III, 12| virtue, and from virtue the chief good is produced. Therefore
68 III, 12| philosophers have assigned the chief good, not to the body, but
69 III, 12| for us to happiness. The chief good therefore which makes
70 III, 13| that immortality is the chief good, we should prove this
71 III, 13| also, who did not grasp the chief good, for the sake of gaining
72 III, 15| bodily pleasure was the chief good. Which pernicious and
73 III, 17| The Capitol, which is the chief seat of the Roman city and
74 III, 18| homicides; and Cato himself, the chief of Roman wisdom, who, before
75 III, 30| things, that he may gain that chief good to which he was born.
76 IV, 1 | since men did not seek the chief good in heaven, but on earth.
77 IV, 1 | For, turning away from the chief good, which is blessed and
78 IV, 4 | heavenly kingdom, that is, the chief good, which they especially
79 IV, 5 | by Joshua, who held the chief place twenty-seven years.
80 V, 9 | in religion, which is the chief of all things. For impiety,
81 V, 9 | it kept its rule in the chief point, would maintain its
82 V, 15| yet there are two, the chief of all, which cannot be
83 V, 18| dogma of his own sect, the chief opinion of which is, "that
84 V, 18| will justice, which is the chief good of man, on this account
85 V, 18| innocence is reckoned among the chief virtues of man. Now by these
86 VI, 1 | now to that which is the chief and greatest part of this
87 VI, 6 | VI. OF THE CHIEF GOOD AND VIRTUE, AND Or
88 VI, 6 | discussing the subject of the chief good. And because they did
89 VI, 6 | they did not know what the chief good was, they necessarily
90 VI, 6 | evils which are not the chief; for no one can weigh these
91 VI, 9 | of the truth and of the chief good; since God, from the
92 VI, 9 | is wanting which is the chief thing of all, it is destitute
93 VI, 11| which is the mother and chief of the virtues, at its own
94 VI, 12| philosophers speak. This is the chief and truest advantage of
95 VI, 12| invite to your house the chief men of the nations and cities
96 VI, 17| USE; OF PATIENCE, AND THE CHIEF GOOD OF CHRISTIANS.~But
97 VI, 17| management of which the chief duty of the driver is to
98 VI, 17| But we do not refer the chief good to the body, but we
99 VI, 24| And I have laid down a few chief points of this law, since
100 VI, 25| confessed. Therefore the chief ceremonial in the worship
101 VII, 5 | OF THE WORLD, AND OF THE CHIEF GOOD.~Let us now assign
102 VII, 5 | errors. For this is the chief thing; this is the point
103 VII, 5 | or win it by virtue. The chief good is not contained in
104 VII, 5 | end does not contain the chief good. But the chief good
105 VII, 5 | the chief good. But the chief good is contained in that
106 VII, 8 | IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.~The one chief good, therefore, is immortality,
107 VII, 8 | had he comprehended the chief good. For although he perceived
108 VII, 8 | it as though it were the chief good. We, therefore, are
109 VII, 10| though with doubt, that the chief good does not happen to
110 VII, 10| that there is either the chief good or no evil." Death,
111 VII, 15| destruction of them all, the chief power came to the Romans
112 VII, 16| will be enlarged, and the chief power, dispersed among many
113 VII, 27| and explained what was the chief good which we all strive