He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROMEThe enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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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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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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