Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat.


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  1. plese translate

  2. “Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first drives mad”

    It is tattooed on me, from hip to hip

  3. Well that translation marry is wrong because the words singled out Deus Vult translates to God Wills It.

  4. quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat: (probably altered from a passage in Euripides) Those whom God wills to destroy he first deprives of their senses.

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