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.
TERTULLIANHow many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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It is certain because it is impossible.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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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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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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