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The 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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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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Nature Soul Teaching
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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 certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
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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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run

The 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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