It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.