He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
TERTULLIANWhere our joy is, there should our work be.
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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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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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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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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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 our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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