Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANPatience is God’s nature.
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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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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Those who fled will fight another time.
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It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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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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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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