quot homines tot sententiæ

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There are as many opinions as there are people who hold them

Different auditors, as he observes, have different habitudes; so that, were we to put this assertion to the proof by particular applications, we should possibly find quot homines tot sententiæ.

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() From Latin, echoing line 454 of Terence’s Phormio:, by Terence (161 BC), line 454 quot homines tot sententiae: suo’ quoique mos as many men, so many minds: to every one his own way quot (“how many”) + hominēs (“men”, “people”; nominative plural form of homō: “man”, “person”) + tot (“so many”) + sententiae (“opinions”, “thoughts”; nominative plural form of sententia: “opinion”, “thought”).