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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.

St. Jerome

He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich
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. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME

Man Religious Scripture
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.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

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.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Thinking True
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
ST. JEROME

Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME

Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROME

Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Yourself
Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself

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