Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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