And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
TERTULLIANDaily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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