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. JEROMELove knows nothing of order.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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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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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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