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Jerome


Full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, is best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin.
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Jerome
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
Jerome quotes
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
Jerome
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.




Jerome quotes
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
Jerome
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?"
Jerome quotes
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
Jerome
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
Jerome
Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
Jerome
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Jerome
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.




Jerome quotes
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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