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Classical antiquity3 quotes
Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. — Socrates · 360 BCWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder · 77The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us. — Quintus Ennius · 45 BCEarly Christianity1 quote
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. — St. Jerome · 394