Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
ST. JEROMENo one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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