Quotes from Saint Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.

Love knows nothing of order.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Christians are not born but made.

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.