Book, Chapter

 1    I, pref|     to know, that they even preferred it to all things. For it
 2   II, 5   | divine bounty, so that they preferred their own works to their
 3   II, 9   |     was not made by God. He preferred to draw a false inference
 4   II, 19  |     true is therefore to be preferred to all things which are
 5  III, 12  |   at Rome, would never have preferred death to the advantages
 6  III, 12  | thus acted, if they had not preferred obstinately to maintain
 7  III, 28  |  aloft? unless by chance he preferred to place the mind also in
 8   IV, 1   |   in evil, inasmuch as they preferred vice to virtue, because
 9   IV, 30  |    by others more powerful, preferred to secede with their supporters,
10    V, 5   |    desired anything?~"They, preferred to live content with a simple
11    V, 20  |     envy us because we have preferred truth to falsehood? But,
12    V, 23  |     even to death, which is preferred to all things which are
13   VI, 4   |   despised; but whoever has preferred present goods to righteousness,
14   VI, 12  | ought not therefore to have preferred this duty of generosity
15   VI, 21  |   body: true things must be preferred to false, eternal things
16  VII, 1   |     future things are to be preferred to those which are present;
17  VII, 5   | punishment, be cause he has preferred earthly to heavenly goods.
18  VII, 11  |  the good things which they preferred, which happens to those
19  VII, 15  |    of a haughty tyranny, it preferred to obey laws rather than