I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANNow 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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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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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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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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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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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