The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROMEWoman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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