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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

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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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
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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Earth Religious Sky
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem

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