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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

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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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
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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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice

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