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Anonymouse Started conversation Dec 24, 1999
Excuse me if any of these are listed or have been mentioned in the forums. They were sent to me by a member of a small, informal private list I operate:
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus -- Juvenal: ii. 83.
No man is born entirly evil.
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto. (Terence)
Nothing human is alien to me.
Quodcumque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi. -- Horace
Anything you press on me, I discredit and revolt at.
Ut est aemulatio divinae rei et humanae. --Tertullian
God's ways are at odds with human ways.
nam castum esse decet pium poetam
ipsum, uersiculos nihil necesse est -- Catullus 16. 5-6
[tho' the dedicated poet has to be decent,
there's no need for his verses to be]
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
I can't hear you, I have a banana in my ear.
(I like the last one best. 
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Anonymouse Posted Dec 24, 1999
I almost forgot... Those were curtesy of:
Penn Hackney, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.betatesters.com/penn/
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