Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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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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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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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 fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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