“Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.”
Ita se natura habet, ut amara sit veritas, blanda vitia existimentur.
Letter 40
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Jérôme de Stridon: 52 citations0 J'aime
Jérôme de Stridon: Citations en anglais
“The privileges of a few do not make common law.”
Privilegia paucorum non faciunt legem.
Exposition on Jona
Commentaries, Old Testament
“We are always ready to imitate what is evil; and faults are quickly copied where virtues appear inattainable.”
Proclivis est enim malorum aemulatio, et quorum virtutes assequi nequeas, cito imitaris vitia.
Leter 107
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“Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.”
Quotidie morimur, quotidie commutamur, et tamen aternos nos esse credimus.
Letter 60; Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htm <br class="br">Letters
Commentary on Jeremiah
Commentaries, Old Testament
Book I, 18
Adversus Jovinianum
“That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.”
Facile contemnitur clericus, qui saepe vocatus ad prandium, ire non recusat.
Letter 52
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“And had I taken the line -so often adopted by strong men in controversy- of justifying the means by the result.”
Et sicut viri fortes in controversiis solent facere, culpam praemio redimerem.
Letter 48
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“Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.”
Nisi quod in se habet mordacis aliquid veritatis.
Letter 31
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“If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.”
Si rivus tenuiter fluit, non est alvei culpa, sed fontis.
Letter 17
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“Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.”
Bruta quoque animalia et vagae aves, in easdem pedicas retiaque non incidunt.
Letter 54 http://www.monumenta.ch/latein/text.php?tabelle=Hieronymus&rumpfid=Hieronymus,%20Epistulae,%203,%20%20%2054&level=4&domain=&lang=1&id=&hilite_id=&links=&inframe=1 <br class="br">Letters
Book II, 14
Adversus Jovinianum
“The scars of others should teach us caution.”
Alius vulnus, nostra sit cautio.
Letter 54
Letters
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Commentaries, New Testament
“Grandes materias ingenia parva non sufferunt.”
Small minds can never handle great themes.
Letter 60
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“Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat.”
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
Letter 58
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“Alius vulnus, nostra sit cautio.”
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Letter 54
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“Asino quippe lyra superflue canit.”
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. <br class="br">Letter 27; Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htm <br class="br">Letters
“To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.”
Book III, sec. 33 <br class="br"> Apology Against Rufinus https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2710.htm
“It is not the sheep only who abide in the Church.”
The Dialogue Against the Luciferians https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3005.htm
“Undoubted faith towards God it is hard indeed to find.”
The Dialogue Against the Luciferians https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3005.htm
