Jerome
Full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, is best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
Small minds can never handle great themes.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
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.
Privilegia paucorum non faciunt legem.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
If an offence come out of the truth, better it is that the offence come than the truth be concealed.