Quotations From TERTULLIAN

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• 1.

  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.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. De patientia, VII.
  
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• 2.

  It is certain because it is possible.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. De Carne Christe, V....
• 3.

  The nature of rumor is known to all.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, VII.8.
  
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• 4.

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

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, VI.6.
  
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  The entire fruit is already present in the seed.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, IX.8.
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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.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, IX.20.
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  Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, VI.3.
  
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  Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, I.10.
  
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  Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, XIX.8.
• 10.

  Those who fled will fight another time.

  Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. De fuga in persecutione, X....
  
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