“We
never do good with respect of persons; for in our own interest we
conduct ourselves as those who take no payment either praise or
premium from man, but from God, who both requires and remunerates an
impartial benevolence. We are the same to emperors as to our ordinary
neighbors. For we are equally forbidden to wish ill, to do ill, to
speak ill, to think ill of all men.” Tertullian, Apology,
36, ANF 3:45
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