The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
TERTULLIANFear is the foundation of safety.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Now 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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Christians are made, not born.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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