What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
TERTULLIANThe pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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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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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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