Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROMEIt is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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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.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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