Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
TERTULLIANDivorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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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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I believe because it is absurd.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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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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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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