qui genus iactat suum, aliena laudat.

 

qui genus iactat suum, aliena laudat.
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Who vaunts his race, lauds what belongs to others.
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Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 340-341 ; (Lycus).

 

Seneca the Younger

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Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque,
Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres,
In furias ignemque ruunt. Amor omnibus idem.

 

Virgil

 

I have never proceeded from any Genus supremum of the actual infinite. Quite the contrary, I have rigorously proved that there is absolutely no Genus supremum of the actual infinite. What surpasses all that is finite and transfinite is no Genus; it is the single, completely individual unity in which everything is included, which includes the Absolute, incomprehensible to the human understanding. This is the Actus Purissimus, which by many is called God.
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author. Thus I believe that there is no part of matter which is not — I do not say divisible — but actually divisible; and consequently the least particle ought to be considered as a world full of an infinity of different creatures.

 

Georg Cantor

 

Suum cuique.

 

Cicero

 

Qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem.

 

Horace

 

Male ulciscitur dedecus sibi illatum, qui amputat nasum suum.

 

Peter of Blois