The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
TERTULLIANNow 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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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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See how these Christians love one another.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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