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To: MWS

After 5 years lurking just registered in order to ask you; understand.." errare humanum est"...what is meaning of "in errore perservare stultum"? C student in Latin, here. Thanks, much.


53 posted on 04/02/2005 8:36:51 PM PST by PasDe2 (old dancer)
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To: PasDe2

Glad I was able to get you to register!

From the little that I know, "in errore perservare stultum" means "to persevere in error is stupidity."


61 posted on 04/02/2005 8:42:34 PM PST by MWS (Errare humanum est, in errore perservare stultum.)
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To: PasDe2; MWS

"Errare humanum est, in errore perservare stultum." is from Seneca. Translated it means "It is human to make a mistake, it is stupid to persist in it."


136 posted on 04/03/2005 7:58:30 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (If this isn't the End Times it certainly is a reasonable facsimile...)
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