“Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto.”

“Homo sum et humani nihil a me alienum puto.”

“Linguista sum, linguistici nihil a me alienum puto.”

“Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.”

“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.I am human, and think nothing human alien to me.”

“Your favourite virtue ... SimplicityYour favourite virtue in man ... StrengthYour favourite virtue in woman ... WeaknessYour chief characteristic ... Singleness of purposeYour idea of happiness ... To fightYour idea of misery ... SubmissionThe vice you excuse most ... GullibilityThe vice you detest most ... ServilityYour aversion ... Martin TupperFavourite occupation ... Book-wormingFavourite poet ... Shakespeare, Aeschylus, GoetheFavourite prose-writer ... DiderotFavourite hero ... Spartacus, KeplerFavourite heroine ... Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust]Favourite flower ... DaphneFavourite colour ... RedFavourite name ... Laura, JennyFavourite dish ... FishFavourite maxim ... Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me]Favourite motto ... De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted].”