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.
TERTULLIANWoman is a temple built over a sewer.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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