Library – Ancients

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

For tragedy is an imitation, not of human beings, but of actions and of life.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Nature is a source or cause of being moved and of being at rest in that to which it belongs primarily.

Telle est donc la règle la meilleure, et tel est le critère le plus beau pour les biens extérieurs : qu’on soit empêché le moins possible par eux de servir et de contempler Dieu. This, therefore, is the end and the best limit regarding external things, so that the soul may be hindered as little as possible from the contemplation of God and His worship. Hic igitur finis sit et optimus terminus ad res externas respicienti, ut quam minime impediatur anima a contemplatione dei et cultu eius

We suppose ourselves to possess unqualified scientific knowledge of a thing, as opposed to knowing it in the accidental way of the sophist, when we think that we know the cause on which the fact depends, as teh cause of that fact and of no other, and, further, that the fact could not be other than is is.