What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANTruth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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