Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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About Tertullian

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Tertullian (; Latin: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c. AD 155 – c. 220) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a...

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

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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

I have spent a good many years… being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

—Stephen King

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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

—Shelley Winters

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7 Oct 2015 Added