When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMEEarly impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
More St. Jerome Quotes
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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 vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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