Quote #21
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
More from St. Jerome
- Small minds can never handle great themes.
- Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once woll has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
- When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
- The scars of others should teach us caution.
- Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.