"Be not, O Greeks, so very hostilely disposed towards the Barbarians. To the Babylonians you owe astronomy; to the Per…"

"What noble thing have you produced by your pursuit of philosophy? Who of your most eminent men has been free from vai…"

"He alone is without beginning, and He Himself is the beginning of all things. God is a Spirit, not ​pervading matter,…"

"The power of the Logos, having in itself a faculty to foresee future events, not as fated, but as taking place by the…"

"There are legends of the metamorphosis of men: with you the gods also are metamorphosed. Rhea becomes a tree; Zeus a …"

"Man is not, as the croaking philosophers say, merely a rational animal, capable of understanding and knowledge; for, …"

"We do not act as fools, O Greeks, nor utter idle tales, when we announce that God was born in the form of a man. I ca…"

"My soul being taught of God, I discerned that the former class of writings lead to condemnation, but that these put a…"

"Of the Egyptians also there are accurate chronicles. Ptolemy, not the king, but a priest of Mendes, is the inter pret…"

"Regnare nolo: ditescere non libet: prae turam recuso, scortationem odi: navigare ob insatiabilem avaritiam non cupio:…"