He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIANWoman is a temple built over a sewer.
More Tertullian Quotes
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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The blood of the Christians is seed.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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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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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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