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.
ST. JEROMEThe scars of others should teach us caution.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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