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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’

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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
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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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old 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
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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Born Death Difference Life
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

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’

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