Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.