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  • _Aes alienum meis nominibus_ is the same as _meum ipsius aes alienum_, 'debts on my own account.'

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

  • Erasmus and Montaigne are the ideal types; the Renaissance humanist, with his motto humani nil a me alienum puto, belongs to the species almost by birthright—More, Castiglione, Vives, Reuchlin, Sidney.

    The fox’s apology 2009

  • Erasmus and Montaigne are the ideal types; the Renaissance humanist, with his motto humani nil a me alienum puto, belongs to the species almost by birthright—More, Castiglione, Vives, Reuchlin, Sidney.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • In the words of the Roman poet Terence, "Homo sum, humani a me nihil alienum puto" - "I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me."

    In a Perfect World, I'd Call Myself a Sociologist, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Imaginatio est tanquam Proteus vel Chamaeleon, corpus proprium et alienum nonnunquam afficiens.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [6235] Mulier ut alienum virum non admittat praeter suum: Accipe fel hirci, et adipem, et exsicca, calescat in oleo, &c., et non alium praeter et amabit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • As Terrence said, "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, nothing that is human is alien to me."

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2006

  • Minega's world: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto

    Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto Minzo 2006

  • Et dicit liber Iesum sanctissimum omnium Prophetarum fuisse veracem in dictis et factis, benignum, pium, iustum, et ab omni vitio penitus alienum: Sanctum quoque Ioannem Euangelistam post prædictos Prophetas fuisse alijs Sanctiorem, cuius et Euangelium fatentur esse plenum salutari, ac veraci doctrina, et ipsum Sanctum

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • To explain this seeming paradox at once, he was one who could truly say with him in Terence, Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto. 53 He was never an indifferent spectator of the misery or happiness of any one; and he felt either the one or the other in greater proportion as he himself contributed to either.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

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