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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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Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
The rich abound not so much in wealth as in injustice; for all riches being a spoliation of others are born of injustice.
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
Small minds can never handle great themes.
Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
Before Arius arose in Alexandria as a demon of the south, things were said incautiously [regarding the Trinity] which cannot be defended against a malevolent criticism.
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Britain, a province fertile in tyrants.
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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