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Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. — St. Jerome

Letter

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

In the original Latin

Bruta quoque animalia et vagae aves, in easdem pedicas retiaque non incidunt.

St. Jerome
394
★ 3.7
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Topic
Learning from mistakesMan and animalsAnimals
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Time
394Early Christianity
Person
St. Jerome
Provenance
Current citation
Saint Jerome. "Letter LIV." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 4.
Original citation
Saint Jerome. Letter to Furia. c. 394, sect. 4.

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