“The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us!”
Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum, Book I, Chapter XXXV
Variant translation: How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!
“You’re not an ape, use a tool!”
Source: The Vastalimi Gambit (2013), Chapter 7
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