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    Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

    Truth | Enemy | Hatred


    Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

    Philosophy | Themselves


    Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

    Marriage | Divorce | Religious


    He who flees will fight again.

    Fight | Again


    What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

    Athens | Jerusalem


    The nature of rumor is known to all.

    Nature | Known | Rumor


    Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

    Achieve | Argument | Headache


    He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

    Himself | Benefit | Dies


    Christians are made, not born.

    Born | Christians


    Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

    Wander | Complete | Either


    The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

    Seed | Grow | Blood


    Fear is the foundation of safety.

    Fear | Safety | Foundation


    Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

    Prevention | Birth


    You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

    Freedom | Pieces | Cannot


    The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

    Reply | Earning | Complaint


    Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

    Fire | Frying | Pan


    Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

    God | Money


    He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

    Life | Seed | Fruit


    It is certain because it is possible.

    Possible | Certain


    It is certain because it is impossible.

    Impossible | Certain


       

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