The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Saint Jerome, Letter church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. Saint Jerome, Letter church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. Saint Jerome, Letter church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. Saint Jerome, Letter church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) The friendship that can cease has never been real. Saint Jerome, Letter church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. Spanish Proverb When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. Saint Ambrose, Taylor Italian saint & church father (339 AD - 397 AD) Out of the frying pan into the fire. Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi Carthaginian church father (160 AD - 230 AD) Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, Adversus Valentinianos Carthaginian church father (160 AD - 230 AD) Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |