Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.15.75
All the philosophers who tried to work out anything about the causes of natural things—even though they taught otherwise in their schools yet worshiped idols with the common people—have nevertheless touched, as it were, some parts of truth amid the many empty notions in their thinking. Empty though they are through their darkness, they can rightly be preferred to this doctrine we are opposing.
Thales of Miletus, one of the Seven Sages; then Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Leucippus, Democritus, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Melissus, Plato, and the Pythagoreans.
Latin
Thales Milesius unus e septem sapientibus, deinde Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Leucippus, Democritus, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Melissus, Plato, Pythagoraei
Omnes philosophi in scholis licet aliud disserentes, tamen idola cum plebe venerantes, qui de naturalibus causis aliquid excogitare conati sunt, inter multas opinionis suae vanitates, aliquas tamen veritatis velut lambere partes, qui per caliginem vani, huic tamen dogmati contra quod xagimus, iure anteferri possunt
omnes philosophos, qui de naturalibus causis aliquid excogitare conati sunt, iureposse huic dogmati, contra quod ageres, anteferri