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  • This is not only shown in their way of living and speaking, but also in their look, the expression of their physiognomy, their gait and gesticulations; everything about them proclaims in terram prona!

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • * Sensus enim, et cogitatio humani cordis in malum prona sunt:

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • [284] "Sensus enim, et cogitatio humani cordis in malum prona sunt."

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • [56] Veluti pecora, quae natura finxit prona et obedientia ventri.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Maritima quoque domestica gens est, et culta, fida, patiens, et urbana; vestitu siquidem honesta, civilis atque pacifica; circa cultum divinum devota, sed et obviandis hostium injuriis semper prona.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • Omnes [1] homines, qui sese student [2] praestare ceteris animalibus, summa ope [3] niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura prona [4] atque ventri obedientia finxit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Quorum summitatum atque contrariorum haec loca sunt: is status qui praemium esset, si in praeceptis dei Adam manere uoluisset et is qui poenae fuit, quoniam manere noluit; in illo enim nec mors esset nec peccatum nec uoluntas ulla peccati, in hoc uero et mors et peccatum et delinquendi omnis affectio omniaque in perniciem prona nec quicquam in se opis habentia, ut post lapsum posset adsurgere.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Cum te matris utero natura produxit, nudum rebus omnibus inopemque suscepi, meis opibus foui et quod te nunc inpatientem nostri facit, fauore prona indulgentius educaui, omnium quae mei iuris sunt affluentia et splendore circumdedi.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • He is not fashioned, veluti pecora, quæ natura prona atque ventri obedientia finxit.

    Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831

  • This is not only shown in their way of living and speaking, but also in their look, the expression of their physiognomy, their gait and gesticulations; everything about them proclaims _in terram prona!

    Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824

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