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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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He who flees will fight again.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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