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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of… — St. Jerome

Letter

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

In the original Latin

Speculum mentis est facies, et taciti oculi cordis fatentur arcana.

St. Jerome
394
★ 3.7
Provenance
Current citation
Saint Jerome. "Letter LIV." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 13.
Original citation
Saint Jerome. Letter to Furia. c. 394, sect. 13.

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