Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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