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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

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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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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible 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
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
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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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious

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