CONTRA FATUM

"Since we affirm that the God of the universe is mind, or that He transcends mind and being, and is simple and invisible and incorporeal, we would maintain that God is not comrehended by any being other than that made in the image of that mind." (Con. Cel. VII,37)

"If piety and holiness and righteousness are reckoned to be relative, so that one and the same thing is pious and impious under differing conditions and laws, consider whether we should not logically reckon self-control also as relative, and courage, intelligence, knowledge, and the other virtues. Nothing could be more absurd than this." (Con. Cel. V,28)