“We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Book II, Chapter LII, section 90
De Divinatione – On Divination (44 BC)

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Non enim omnis error stultitia est dicenda.

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Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BC

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