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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

St. Jerome

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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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
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
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
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
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

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