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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

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