Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
TERTULLIANCan we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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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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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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