Return of the Dreadful Phrases
As it says in Ecclesiastes, of the making of books there is no end. And Seneca is (dubiously) said to have told us that errare humanum est1 (to err is human)2.
A side-effect of these two universal truths is that this thread is onto its third iteration.
- sed perseverare diabolicum, but to persist [in error] is diabolical.
- Alexander Pope added "to forgive divine", which might argue agains the existence of these threads.3
- On the other hand, Augustine said da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo, give me chastity and continence, but not yet.