Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANHe who flees will fight again.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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 soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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