For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROMEWine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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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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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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