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The first reaction to truth is hatred.

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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
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
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

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