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. JEROMEThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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