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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

St. Jerome

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROME

Humanity Move Power True
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
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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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
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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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
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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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
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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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
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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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
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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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture

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