Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROMEFor 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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