Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROMEA vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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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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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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