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It is certain because it is impossible.
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O witness of the soul naturally Christian.
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One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.
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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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When God's Spirit descends, then Patience accompanies Him indivisibly.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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It's a committing murder before hand, to destroy that which is to be born.
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We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.
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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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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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Of little worth is the recommendation which has for its prop the defamation of another.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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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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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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See, they say, how they love one another, for themselves are animated by mutual hatred; how they are ready even to die for one another, for they themselves will sooner put to death.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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If the Tiber rises, if the Nile does not rise, if the heavens give no rain, if there is an earthquake, famine, or pestilence, straightway the cry is 'The Christians to the lion!' So many to one?
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
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(aged 65)
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