“Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.”

—  Terence , Heauton Timorumenos

Act I, scene 2, line 37 (211).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)

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Periclum ex aliis facito tibi quod ex usu siet.

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