The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
TERTULLIANCan we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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It is certain because it is possible.
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