Fear is the foundation of safety.
TERTULLIANThe blood of the Christians is seed.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Patience is God’s nature.
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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