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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer

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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