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Humanitas (Humanitas)

Humanitas is kindness and learning that treat another person as human. The sample line comes from a comedy. Later Romans used it as a motto. Terence was not teaching a philosophy in that scene.

Grades 7–8. Roman values.

How it connects

A reader shows humanitas by taking another person's trouble seriously and by wanting to learn.

A line to remember

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.

I am human: I think nothing human is foreign to me.

Terence, Heauton Timorumenos 77

Latin words that go with this card: amicus, vita.

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