Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
St. JeromeRead
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True friendship requires honesty and transparency.
This quote highlights the importance of open communication in genuine friendships. It suggests that true friends should feel comfortable sharing their thoughts honestly with each other, fostering a deeper understanding and connection.
Themes
FriendshipHonestyCommunicationTrustTransparency
In practice
Example use cases
During a toast at a wedding, referencing the importance of honesty in lasting friendships.
More from St. Jerome
All quotes βThank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
St. JeromeRead
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.
St. JeromeRead
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
St. JeromeRead
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. JeromeRead
To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.
St. JeromeRead
Similar quotes
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.
Samuel JohnsonRead
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
Willa CatherRead
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas AquinasRead
What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:βtell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone".
Randy PauschRead
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
Barbara KrugerRead