Quotes from Tertullian

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

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

Truth does not blush.

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

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living!

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

Mother Church.