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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
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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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
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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Earth Religious Sky
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
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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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
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
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth

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