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  • Yesterday you quoted the Latin saying by Seneca - errare humanum est - to err is human!

    Response of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the debate on The Presidency Budget Vote 2008

  • Sacrorum gent.descript. non bene meritos solum, sed et tyrannos pro diis colunt, qui genus humanum horrendum in modum portentosa immanitate divexarunt, &c. foedas meretrices,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I will conclude in his lines, Si me cognitum haberes, non solum donares nobis has facetias nostras, sed etiam indignum duceres, tam humanum aninum, lene ingenium, vel minimam suspicionem deprecari oportere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • They are necessary evils, and for our own ends we must make use of them to have issue, [5949] Supplet Venus ac restituit humanum genus, and to propagate the church.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Morbo laborans, qui in prolem facile diffunditur, ne genus humanum foeda contagione laedatur, juventute castratur, mulieres tales procul a consortio virorum ablegantur, &c. Hector

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Agri Neapolitani delectatio, elegantia, amoenitas, vix intra modum humanum consistere videtur; unde, &c. Leand, Alber. in Campania.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quod autem crebrius bella concutiant, quod sterilitas et fames solicitudinem cumulent, quod saevientibus morbis valitudo frangitur, quod humanum genus luis populatione vastatur; ob peccatum omnia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Be not dismayed then, humanum est errare, we are all sinners, daily and hourly subject to temptations, the best of us is a hypocrite, a grievous offender in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Spiritus quoque aeris et mali genii aliquando se tempestatibus ingerunt, et menti humanae se latenter insinuant, eamque vexant, exagitant, et ut fluctus marini, humanum corpus ventis agitatur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Inde ad quandam terram super Oceanum peruenerunt, vbi monstra quædam inuenerunt, quæ per omnia formam humanam habebant, sed pedes bouinos, et caput quidem humanum, sed faciem vt canis.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

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