To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
TERTULLIANThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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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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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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