A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
TertullianIf the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
TertullianThe nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
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