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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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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
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
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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Nature Poet Rumor
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth

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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