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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
The divine institutes

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pleasure

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1 I, pref| vices are seasoned with pleasure, offended by the former 2 I, 9 | such was the price at which pleasure was valued. What! some one 3 I, 11 | Him, but that it is their pleasure that He should be called 4 I, 15 | of poems composed to give pleasure, raised them to the heaven; 5 I, 15 | dead at the consent and pleasure of a senseless multitude? 6 I, 23 | the truth, than which no pleasure is more gratifying to man; 7 II, 4 | capable of deriving any pleasure from these things. What 8 II, 7 | uncorrupted if they take pleasure in those things in the pursuit 9 III, 7 | the chief good consists in pleasure of mind, Aristippus in pleasure 10 III, 7 | pleasure of mind, Aristippus in pleasure of the body. Callipho and 11 III, 7 | Dinomachus united virtue with pleasure, Diodorus with the privation 12 III, 8 | wise man who believed that pleasure of the mind is the chief 13 III, 8 | the chief good is bodily pleasure?--that they eagerly seek 14 III, 8 | because it is productive of pleasure. True, says the filthy dog, 15 III, 8 | valour may procure for me pleasure; of which I must necessarily 16 III, 8 | be attended with greater pleasure. He is therefore most wretched 17 III, 8 | creatures. They who joined pleasure with virtuous principle, 18 III, 8 | since he who is abandoned to pleasure must of necessity be destitute 19 III, 8 | principle must be destitute of pleasure. The chief good of the Peripatetics 20 III, 8 | the support of life, or pleasure, or for glory. That, therefore, 21 III, 8 | means of subsistence, glory, pleasure? And these things are not 22 III, 8 | goods; for the desire of pleasure and of food does not exist 23 III, 9 | if you esteemed the mere pleasure more highly than the author 24 III, 9 | highly than the author of the pleasure? So entirely do philosophers 25 III, 11 | proposed to all men. There is pleasure, which is desired by all; 26 III, 11 | men, must also be without pleasure. Therefore pleasure is not 27 III, 11 | without pleasure. Therefore pleasure is not the chief good; but 28 III, 11 | shall we say that it is? Pleasure? But nothing that is base 29 III, 15 | others employ for glory or pleasure, he will employ for the 30 III, 15 | contending that bodily pleasure was the chief good. Which 31 III, 17 | because the attractive name of pleasure invites many. For every 32 III, 17 | advocate of most disgraceful pleasure, and said that man was born 33 III, 17 | pass away from us without pleasure; lest, since we ourselves 34 III, 17 | punishment at all; that pleasure is the greatest good; that 35 III, 21 | place in that promiscuous pleasure. Moreover, if all are the 36 III, 27 | a man who is devoted to pleasure took upon himself the character 37 III, 27 | to vices, if they defend pleasure; or if they uphold virtue, 38 IV, 11 | shows, saying: "I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord, 39 IV, 13 | Nevertheless it was His pleasure that He should be born as 40 V, 1 | except that which can excite pleasure: no one estimates a subject 41 V, 9 | more securely enjoy the pleasure of his evil doings, than 42 V, 21 | acted with laughter and pleasure. What kind of a religion 43 VI, 1 | things by the perception and pleasure of the body alone. And as 44 VI, 1 | religion according to its pleasure, so also they arrange the 45 VI, 1 | were about to bear away pleasure with themselves, which they 46 VI, 4 | wealth, honour, repose, pleasure, all kinds of enticements; 47 VI, 4 | For all whom desire or pleasure drags headlong, envy him 48 VI, 4 | that, giving themselves to pleasure of the body, they may be 49 VI, 11 | receives? Therefore, as all pleasure is short and perishable, 50 VI, 12 | wealth for the particular, pleasure of an individual, but for 51 VI, 20 | The other animals have no pleasure, except the one only which 52 VI, 20 | skilful Creator gave to man pleasure without limit, and liable 53 VI, 20 | always be at variance with pleasure, as with a domestic enemy. 54 VI, 20 | enticements than those of pleasure. And since nature or some 55 VI, 20 | divine benefit and gift as pleasure. For when lust bears sway 56 VI, 20 | have any existence when pleasure reigns supreme." But, on 57 VI, 20 | might subdue and conquer pleasure, and that, when it passed 58 VI, 20 | with everlasting death. The pleasure arising from the eyes is 59 VI, 20 | For he who reckons it a pleasure, that a man, though justly 60 VI, 20 | blood-shedding they esteem a pleasure. I ask now whether they 61 VI, 20 | habitual indulgence of any pleasure may not soothe and captivate 62 VI, 21 | AND OF SACRED LITERATURE.~Pleasure of the ears is received 63 VI, 21 | God. Therefore, if it be a pleasure to hear melodies and songs, 64 VI, 21 | praises of God. This is true pleasure, which is the attendant 65 VI, 21 | shall seek nothing else from pleasure but pleasure itself, he 66 VI, 21 | nothing else from pleasure but pleasure itself, he designs for himself 67 VI, 21 | virtue, so there is death in pleasure. For he who shall choose 68 VI, 22 | souls; for it knows that pleasure is the contriver of death. 69 VI, 25 | with much blood--for what pleasure arises from the slaughter 70 VII, 5 | be a spectator, all the pleasure of the Circensian games 71 VII, 5 | and rarely to be found, pleasure is common and public. Thus 72 VII, 7 | who made man subject to pleasure, that is, to evil, as though 73 VII, 9 | dumb animals, both seeks pleasure, by the varied and agreeable 74 VII, 9 | to compensate us for the pleasure which we have given up? 75 VII, 10 | vengeance has been taken; the pleasure of the body puts an end 76 VII, 10 | completed in their performance, pleasure and their rewards follow; 77 VII, 10 | and has been the slave of pleasure, he truly, being condemned, 78 VII, 11 | drink, clothing, rest, and pleasure; and it cannot desire or 79 VII, 12 | repelled by fortitude, and that pleasure may be overcome, not only 80 VII, 12 | virtue, if it be given up to pleasure, and thus rendered effeminate, 81 VII, 12 | contriver of immortality, as pleasure is of death. But death, 82 VII, 23 | goods, and enjoying the pleasure of innumerable resources, 83 VII, 27 | conscience that that frail pleasure will not be without punishment, 84 VII, 27 | covered by the attractions of pleasure. And the more nearly each


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