A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROMEIf it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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 false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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