Marcus Minucius Felix

“We do not speak great things, but we live them.”

“A man must be very inert to have no presage of the future.”

“Truth has this quality, that it is not believed so long as it is not explained; but when it is explained, it is not denied.”

“He who does not know himself, can know nothing.”

“How can he be poor who does not want, who does not crave for what is another's, who is rich towards God?”

“We prove our philosophy not by our garb, but by our minds.”

“So far are we from indulging in unholy pleasures, that many of us are ashamed of pleasures that are lawful.”

“God, who is the parent of all, is not in want of man.”

“For the world is an orderly arrangement, and God is the ruler of the order.”

“Nor are we ashamed to be called Christians, because the name is hateful to the ignorant.”

“They know that they are seen by God, therefore they are afraid to sin.”

“Man, as long as he is in the body, is a guest and a stranger in the world.”

“You, who consecrate gods of wood, perhaps adore wooden crosses as parts of your gods.”