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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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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Beautiful Lust Religious
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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

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