Fear is the foundation of safety.
He who flees will fight again.
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.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
See how these Christians love one another.
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Wide are men
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
It is certain because it is impossible
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Christians are made, not born.
It is certain because it is impossible.
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
It is certain because it is possible.
The nature of rumor is known to all.
You say we worship the sun; so do you.
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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.
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
The usual complaint is, ‘I have no other way of earning a living.’ The harsh reply can be, ‘Do you have to live?’
