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pulvis et umbra sumus, fruges consumere nati	we are but dust and shadows, born to consume the fruits of the earth (Horace)
abstineas igitur damnandis; hujus enim vel una potens ratio est, ne crimina nostra sequantur ex nobis geniti; quoniam dociles imitandis turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus	let us refrain from doing ill; for one powerful reason, lest our children should follow our crimes; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved (Juvenal)
ad nocendum potentes sumus	we all have power to do harm (Seneca)
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem	In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags
captantes capti sumus	we catchers have been caught (i.e., the biter is bitten)
de asini umbra disceptare	to argue about the shadow of an ass (i.e., to argue over trifling matters)
deteriores omnes sumus licentia	we are all the worse for license (Terence)
dociles imitandis turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus	we are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved (Juvenal)
Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem	As long as we are among humans, let us be humane. (Seneca)
dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem	so long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity (Seneca)
e fungis nati homines	men born of mushrooms (i.e., upstarts)
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis	and the children of our children, and those who shall be born to them (i.e., for our many generations to come) (Virgil)
ex umbra in solem	from the shade into the sun
fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum	vice can deceive under the shape and shadow of virtue, when sad and severe in its dress and countenance (Juvenal)
filii non plus possessionum quam morborum hæredes sumus	we sons are heirs no less to diseases than to estates

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