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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
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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Beautiful Lust Religious
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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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Enough God Men Reveal
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women

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