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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?'
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- The scars of others should teach us caution.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), On the Epistle to the Ephesians
- No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- Saint John Chrysostom (347 AD - 407 AD), Letter to Olympia
- Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~375 AD), De Rei Militari
- I was in love with loving.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD), Confessions
- Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
- The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
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