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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

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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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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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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Moments Place Soul
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
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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Earth Religious Sky
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy

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