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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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 Soul Teaching
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner

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