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.
TERTULLIANFor 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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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