Inter faeces et urinam nascimur  

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"We are born amid feces and urine"--Clairvaux or Augustine

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Inter faeces et urinam nascimur is a Latin dictum attributed to one of the early church fathers, usually to Bernard of Clairvaux or Saint Augustine, although as of November 2023, the earliest reference in print was in 1875[1].

"Inter faeces et urinam nascimur", "...et quid de nobis, fratres, qui inter faeces et urinam nascimur..."
"We are born amid feces and urine"

But the dictum can be traced further in time in its variant form "Inter stercus et urinam nascimur", substituting faeces for stercus for example in Disputatio medica inauguralis de medico eleemosynario publico (1695) by Joannes Christophorus Avemann, as well as in other books of that era.

In Avemann it is attributed to Seneca.

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