Saint Jerome (345-420)

Quotes

• The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

• The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

• An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

• No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

• 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?'

• A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

• The scars of others should teach us caution.

• When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

• The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

• It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.