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 in letter
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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'

quote by Saint Jerome
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The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

quote by Saint Jerome
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