They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROMEWhen I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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