Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
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
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run

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