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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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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Discipline Law Willing
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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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Eyes Kindness Practice
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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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Enough God Men Reveal
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place

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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