Tertullian

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

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

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

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

He who flees will fight again.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

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

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

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

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

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

See how these Christians love one another.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

It is certain because it is possible.

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

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

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.