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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
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That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
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O death that dividest brothers knit together in love, how cruel, how ruthless you are so to sunder them!
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Every day we die, every day we are changed, and yet we believe ourselves to be eternal.
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Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
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Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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 sender of it.
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The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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I have revered always not crude verbosity, but holy simplicity.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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 Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Born:
340
Died:
September 30, 420
(aged 80)
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Saint Jerome was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian, who also became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia, then part of northeastern Italy.
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