If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROMEA fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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