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.
TERTULLIANNature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
More Tertullian Quotes
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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