“Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.”
Bruta quoque animalia et vagae aves, in easdem pedicas retiaque non incidunt.
Letter 54 http://www.monumenta.ch/latein/text.php?tabelle=Hieronymus&rumpfid=Hieronymus,%20Epistulae,%203,%20%20%2054&level=4&domain=&lang=1&id=&hilite_id=&links=&inframe=1 <br class="br">Letters
Book II, 14
Adversus Jovinianum
“The scars of others should teach us caution.”
Alius vulnus, nostra sit cautio.
Letter 54
Letters
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Commentaries, New Testament
“Grandes materias ingenia parva non sufferunt.”
Small minds can never handle great themes.
Letter 60
Letters
“Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat.”
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
Letter 58
Letters
“Alius vulnus, nostra sit cautio.”
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Letter 54
Letters
“Asino quippe lyra superflue canit.”
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. <br class="br">Letter 27; Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htm <br class="br">Letters
“To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.”
Book III, sec. 33 <br class="br"> Apology Against Rufinus https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2710.htm
“It is not the sheep only who abide in the Church.”
The Dialogue Against the Luciferians https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3005.htm
“Undoubted faith towards God it is hard indeed to find.”
The Dialogue Against the Luciferians https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3005.htm