Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
TERTULLIANThe 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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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