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

—  Jerome

Letter 54
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Speculum mentis est facies, et taciti oculi cordis fatentur arcana.

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Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church 345–420

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