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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.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
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
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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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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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Born Death Difference Life
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence

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