Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROMEEvery day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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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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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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