Jerome
Full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, is best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin.
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.
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
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.
Privilegia paucorum non faciunt legem.
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
Small minds can never handle great themes.
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?