He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANPrevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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He who flees will fight again.
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