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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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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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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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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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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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