Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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