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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

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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
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
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
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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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
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
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
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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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice

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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