He who flees will fight again.
TERTULLIANWhere our work is, there let our joy be.
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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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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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