Jerome Quotes

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

Amicum qui diu quaeritur, vix invenitur, difficile servatur.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Facilius enim neglegentia emendari potest quam amor nasci.

faciamque in eis ultiones magnas arguens in furore et scient quia ego Dominus cum dedero vindictam meam super eos

Grandes materias ingenia parva non sufferunt.

Interdum animus dominarum ex ancillarum habitu iudicatur.

self-confidence is the worst of teachers — but from the church's most famous writers.

Amicitia quae desinere potest vera numquam fuit.

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

Nisi quod in se habet mordacis aliquid veritatis.

It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.

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

Heliodorus, tells me that there are many parts of the Scriptures which you seek and cannot find. But even if you have them all, affection is sure to assert its rights and to seek for itself more than it already has.

To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.