Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

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