“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
Caritas non potest conparari; dilectio pretium non habet.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 3
Letters
“Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
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