Tag: St. Jerome
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome
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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
St. Jerome
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Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
St. Jerome
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome