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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.

St. Jerome

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROME

Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
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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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
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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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
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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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
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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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner

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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