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   George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 06:30:44 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

   One passed laws for your kids. The other passed his hat for your cash.

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     ideaPDish (ipd@universeodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 06:44:31 JST ideaPDish

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     and Musk passed out

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 06:46:09 JST kaia

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     omne animal se ipsum diligit.
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     divVerent (divverent@misskey.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 06:46:13 JST divVerent

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     @georgetakei@universeodon.com I've seen that book cover before.
     
     #Latin #Cicero #philosophy

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 06:47:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     @georgetakei @Brad_Rosenheim And Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people? What’s the scorecard look like on that?

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     divVerent (divverent@misskey.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 07:54:50 JST divVerent

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     @kaia@brotka.st I like how you obviously used a machine translation for this, and yet it's fully understandable.
     
     Maybe this is Latin how it should have been?
     
     EDIT: No, this is the actual quote. The word order is a bit odd, IMHO, and se ipsum is a pleonasm, but it's not wrong.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 07:57:43 JST kaia

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     @divVerent yeah, I wanted to indicate that both sides of that image show someone doing this:
     
     > Every living creature loves itself, and from the moment of birth strives to secure its own preservation; because the earliest impulse bestowed on it by nature for its life-long protection is the instinct for self-preservation and for the maintenance of itself in the best condition possible to it in accordance with its nature. (De Finibus V, 9:24)
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 08:11:22 JST lainy

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     @georgetakei the thing about Biden is that he is basically pro humanity and anti bad things
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     divVerent (divverent@misskey.de)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 08:29:20 JST divVerent

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     @kaia@brotka.st Exactly.
     
     I just found it funny - and clearly have not read that particular part back then in class - that this word order is a bit untypical for Latin (AFAIK one usually puts the adjective after the noun, even if it is "omne").
     
     But of course, Latin is quite open regarding allowed word order, and well, many people made use of that property quite a lot :)
     
     But of course, this was Cicero, who definitely varied a bit more than usual for rhetorical reasons.

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