Quote #15

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

More from St. Jerome

  1. It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
  2. Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
  3. That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
  4. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
  5. No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
  6. The scars of others should teach us caution.
  7. 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?'
  8. When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

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