They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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