He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANChrist, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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He who flees will fight again.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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