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by NoSorryCannot 2169 days ago
This is a really big stretch in interpretation but also in plausibility, since Latin is a dead language.

But if it were true, then you'd have it your way: it'd also be inappropriate in professional settings that don't naturally necessitate it.

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> This is a really big stretch in interpretation

According to Wikipedia[0], "[t]he placeholder text is taken from parts of the first book's discourse on hedonism." The first book being the first book of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum