But if they cannot have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Yet permits the contraction of marriage and the enjoyment of it.
T discipline in the persons of our females rather by defilements of the flesh than tortures; wishing to wrest from them that which they hold dearer than life! But now this glory is being extinguished, and that by means of those who ought with all the more constancy to refuse concession of any pardon to defilements of this kind, that they make the fear of succumbing to adultery and fornication their reason for marrying as often as they please-since "better it is to marry than to burn."
