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Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
church father & saint [more author details]

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.: Saint Jerome
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome
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A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.: Saint Jerome, 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.: Saint Jerome, 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?': Saint Jerome, Letter
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.: Saint Jerome, 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.: Saint Jerome, Letter
The friendship that can cease has never been real.: Saint Jerome, Letter
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The scars of others should teach us caution.: Saint Jerome, Letter
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.: Saint Jerome, Letter
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.: Saint Jerome, Letter 48
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.: Saint Jerome, On the Epistle to the Ephesians

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