Woman is the root of all evil.
ST. JEROME
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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For 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.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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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. JEROME