Jerome Quotes

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

He tells me that you would have actually accomplished your purpose, had not our brethren with affectionate care held you back. I thank you all the same and regard it as a kindness shown. For in the case of friends one must accept the will for the deed. Enemies often give us the latter, but only sincere attachment can bring us the former.

Proclivis est enim malorum aemulatio, et quorum virtutes assequi nequeas, cito imitaris vitia.

The truth is, men are elected to the episcopate who come from the bosom of Plato and Aristophanes. How many can you find among them who are not fully instructed in these writers? All, whoever they may be, that are ordained at the present day from among the literate class make it their study not how to seek out the marrow of Scripture, but how to tickle the ears of the people with the flowers of rhetoric.

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

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

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

To go about without a linen scarf on is nothing: what is praiseworthy is to be without money to buy one. It is disgraceful and absurd to boast of having neither napkin nor handkerchief and yet to carry a well-filled purse.

nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

To die is the lot of all, to commit homicide only of the weak man.

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

Let us go back a little farther and read on until we come to these words, for we must not seek to learn the whole meaning of the section, from the concluding parts of it, or, if I may so say, from the tail of the chapter.

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