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b. 250
Marcus Minucius Felix (died c. 250 AD in Rome) was one of the earliest of the Latin apologists for Christianity. He is now exclusively known by his Octavius, a dialogue between the pagan Caecilius Natalis and the Christian Octavius Januarius.
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Honest things always love the public light; wicked deeds are secret.
Man’s doing, not his dignity, is judged.
You punish crimes committed, with us the thought of crime is sin; you fear the voice of witnesses, we the sole voice of conscience.
We do not preach great things but we live them.
Are you of noble lineage? proud of your ancestry? Yet we are all born equal, virtue alone gives mark.
God cannot be seen: he is too bright for sight; nor grasped: he is too pure for touch; nor measured: for he is beyond all sense, infinite, measureless, his dimension known to him- self alone.
Children still at the lovable stage of the years of innocence, trying to form broken words, in the pretty prattle which the broken efforts of a stumbling tongue render still sweeter.
As he who treads a road is the happier the lighter he walks, so happier is he in this journey of life who lifts himself along in poverty, and does not breathe heavily under the burden of riches.
The body in the grave is like trees in winter; they conceal their greenness under a show of dryness. ... We too must wait for the springtime of the body.
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