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?
TERTULLIANAnd when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Christians are made, not born.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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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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