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Marcus Minucius Felix

Marcus Minucius Felix was one of the earliest of the Latin apologists for Christianity.

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    As on the highroad he who walks lightest walks with most ease, so on the journey of
    life more happiness comes from lightening the needs by poverty than from panting under a
    burden of wealth.
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)

    Careless credulity makes them the prey of those they trusted; and then they repeat their
    mistake by suspecting all alike.
    Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)

    It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
    —Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

    The body in the grave is like the tree in winter; they conceal their greenness under a show of dryness.... We too must wait for the springtime of the body.
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cent. A.D.)

    With us justice is the true measure of religion.
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)