QUOTATION: The Two Ways

God calls to life by labour; the devil, to death by delights.

-- Lactantius

QUOTATION: Frugality

Frugality is a sin in this respect:  that it arises from the love of possessing. In contrast, we should both abstain from pleasures and by no means withhold money.  To use money sparingly, that is, moderately, is a type of weakness of the mind. It reveals someone fearing lest he will be in need.  Or it reveals someone despairing of being able to recover it, or someone incapable of the contempt of earthly things.

--Lactantius 

QUOTATION: Wisdom

Wisdom precedes, religion follows; for the knowledge of God comes first, His worship is the result of this knowledge.

--Lactantius, Divine Institutes, 4:4