Complete 3/3 25) "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto," which Donner translates literally: "I am human, nothing that is human can I regard as alien to me." But Cicero and Seneca already used this line as a proverb, and in a sense which far transcends that which it would seem to convey in context with the passage whence it is taken; and as I coincide with them, I have transferred it to the title-page of this book with this meaning: "I am a man; and I feel that I am above all else a man." Leipzig, November 11, 1877. |