Controversial Sayings
861 sayings found from the Ancient era
For thus far also, 'The wife hath not power of her own body, but the man: in like manner also the man hath not power of his own body, but the woman.' That that also, which, not for the begetting of children, but for weakness and incontinence, either …
Husband and wife receive command and pattern how they ought to be one with another. The command is, 'Let wives be subject unto their own husbands, as unto the Lord; because the husband is the head of the wife;' and, 'Husbands, love your wives.'
If Adam and Eve had not sinned, God might have created children for them without the need of intercourse.
Having children is the only worthy fruit of sexual intercourse.
Sexual abstinence, to avoid lust, is rare among married partners.
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
The human nature, which first existed, is praised by these men as being so far less tainted with evil manners?
Our nature became corrupted and ruined; and nothing but God's grace alone, through Him who is the Mediator between God and men, and our Almighty Physician, succours it.
Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Eureka!
Noli turbare circulos meos.
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
I had been chosen by the gods, that I was of divine essence and therefore entitled to rule Egypt.
His Majesty was confident, an unstoppable fighting force. Everything near him was ablaze with fire – all the foreign lands were blasted by his scorching breath. He slaughtered all the troops of the doomed Hittite, his nobleman and his brothers, along…
Appease the ka-force of Amun.
I boasted that I had fathered 80 sons and around 60 daughters.
The narrative designed for internal consumption was fiction moulded around a kernel of fact: the pharaoh was indeed cut off from his army, he did face a chariot onslaught while outnumbered, and he did inflict casualties. He lost, but so what? As poli…
If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
If a member of the awilum class struck someone of equal status, they would pay one mina of silver. But if they struck a member of the mushkenum class, they would pay only ten shekels.