Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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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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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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See how these Christians love one another.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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He who flees will fight again.
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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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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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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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