The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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