The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
TERTULLIANThe Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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He who flees will fight again.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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