Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMEEither 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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 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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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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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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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