Tertullian Quotes

The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Truth, Hatred, Reaction

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Blood, Church, Seed

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
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Present, Seed, Fruit

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Nature, Fear, Evil

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

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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Pain, Feeling, Away

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom, Nothing, Cannot

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Patience, Hope, Lamp

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Birth, Prevention

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

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Two, Kinds, Appear

Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear, Foundation, Safety

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
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Money, God, Nothing

The nature of rumor is known to all.
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Nature, Known, Rumor

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

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Nothing, Achieve, Headache

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
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Philosophy, Themselves, Indeed

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

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

Christians are made, not born.
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Born, Christians

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

He who flees will fight again.
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Fight, Again, Flees

It is certain because it is impossible.
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It is certain because it is possible.
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire, Frying, Pan

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Author

Born: 160

Died: 225

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