Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANLearn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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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 soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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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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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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It is certain because it is impossible.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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