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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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Enough God Men Reveal
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
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
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
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
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety

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