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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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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Nature Poet Rumor
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
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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Enough God Men Reveal
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious

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