Lactantius

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.