A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROMESeek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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