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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.

St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
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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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
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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Hard Impression Mindset White
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin

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