If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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