342-420, Croatian Christian Ascetic, Scholar
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome – [Exercise]
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome – [Friends and Friendship]
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
St. Jerome – [Action]
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome – [Love]
Prayer is a groan.
St. Jerome – [Prayer]
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
St. Jerome – [Service]
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome – [Friends and Friendship]
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome – [Friends and Friendship]
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
St. Jerome – [Fasting]