"Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere."
— Quintilian

January 1, 1970

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For it had been better for men to be born dumb and devoid of reason than to turn the gifts of providence to their mutual destruction. — Book XII, Chapter I, 2; translation by H. E. Butler