Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROMEHe is rich enough who does not want bread.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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