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  • You do realize that the word ‘customer’ comes from the Latin stultus, meaning ‘fool’.

    dustbury.com » Cap busted 2008

  • The word “customer” is derived from the Latin stultus, meaning “fool”. ’nuff said.

    dustbury.com » The customer is always … 2007

  • I don't think she would waste the parchment to respond, stultus tu es.

    Women Were From Venus and Men Were From Mars in the Twelfth Century, Too Leigh 2008

  • Both words are from the Latin “stultiloquus”, speaking foolishly, which is derived from “stultus”, foolish, plus “loquus”, that speaks.

    Mishmash « So Many Books 2006

  • I don't think she would waste the parchment to respond, stultus tu es.

    Archive 2008-06-08 Leigh 2008

  • Much better to know nothing at all, as those barbarous Indians are wholly ignorant, than as some of us, to be so sore vexed about unprofitable toys: stultus labor est ineptiarum, to build a house without pins, make a rope of sand, to what end? cui bono?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Stultus, qui quaerit quod nequit invenire, stultus qui quaerit quod nocet inventum, stultus qui cum plures habet calles, deteriorem deligit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si id studes ut uxor, amici, liberi perpetuo vivant, stultus es.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But Solomon saith, Prudens advertit ad gressus suos; stultus divertit ad dolos.

    The Essays 2007

  • Ignavus qui sine causa moritur, et stultus qui cum dolore vivit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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