You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
TERTULLIANOut of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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He who flees will fight again.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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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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