Quote #7
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
More from St. Jerome
- If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
- Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
- No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
- While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
- It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
- The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'