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Saint Jerome
 church father & saint

| “ | It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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| “ | The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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| “ | A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
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| “ | An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
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| “ | 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?'
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| “ | No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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| “ | 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.
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| “ | The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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| “ | The scars of others should teach us caution.
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| “ | When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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