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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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Moments Place Soul
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
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
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
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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