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347–420
Saint Jerome (c. 347 – 30 September 420), full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, is best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. Jerome's edition, the Vulgate, is still the official biblical text of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.
The Cry for Justice (1915)
The vices of our teachers are not to be imitated, their virtues are.
To die is the lot of all, to commit homicide only of the weak man.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
Innocence would be dead long ago if wickedness were always allied to power, and calumny could prevail in all that it seeks to accomplish.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
Be always employed about some rational thing that the devil find thee not idle.
To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.
"When you have said what you like, you shall bear what you do not like."
On the mystery of the Trinity, the correct confession of which is ignorance of knowledge.
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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.
They fill their houses through the plunder and losses of others, so that the saying of the philosophers may be fulfilled, 'Every rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.' (Omnis dives aut iniquis aut iniqui haeres.)
The privileges of a few do not make common law.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
O death that dividest brothers knit together in love, how cruel, how ruthless you are so to sunder them!
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
We are always ready to imitate what is evil; and faults are quickly copied where virtues appear inattainable.
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