Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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