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NUMBER:44628
QUOTATION:For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
ATTRIBUTION:Plutarch (c. 46–c. 120), Greek essayist, biographer. “Against Colotes,” Morals.

The phrase was already proverbial in Plutarch’s time.
 
 
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