The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
TERTULLIANYou cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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