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 Saint Jerome



Saint Jerome



church father & saint


Quotes

Quotes by Saint Jerome

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
Letter
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
Letter
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'
Letter
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
Letter
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
Letter
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Letter
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Letter
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
Letter


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