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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
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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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Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
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It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
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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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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride and maiden's souls are such.
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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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We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, We worship God through Christ! Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
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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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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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