Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANHope is patience with the lamp lit.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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He who flees will fight again.
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