Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANA 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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Those who fled will fight another time.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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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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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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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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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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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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God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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