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.
TERTULLIANDivorce 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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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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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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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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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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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