Author: St. Jerome

Quotes

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.

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

- St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

- St. Jerome

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

- St. Jerome

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

- St. Jerome

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

- St. Jerome

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

- St. Jerome

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

- St. Jerome

They talk like angels but they live like men.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

- St. Jerome

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