He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIANTruth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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He who flees will fight again.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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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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Christians are made, not born.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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