The form correcterat specifically indicates a completed action in the past, from the perspective of another past time. The root of the verb is related to the Latin rectus, meaning "straight" or "right" #rectitude

A quotation from Judith Martin

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can’t help being right.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1999-02-02)

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A quotation from Horace

He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
 
          [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Undying hope is co-ruler of the human bosom with infallible credulity. A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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A quotation from Fuller, Thomas:

«
Be not magisterial in thy Dictates, nor pertinaciously contentious in ordinary discourse for thy Opinion; no nor for even a Truth of small Consequence. If thou thinkest good, declare thy Reasons; if they be not accepted, be quiet, and let them alone. Thou are not bound to convert all the World to Truth.
»

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https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/9770/

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A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 per cent. of them are wrong.
»

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https://wist.info/mencken-hl/71186/

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A quotation from Martial:

«
‘Tis rare, when riches cannot taint the mind.

[Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.]
»

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https://wist.info/martial/38958/

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A quotation from Confucius:

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What I call a great minister is one who employs the Way in serving his sovereign. If he cannot do that, he resigns.
[所謂大臣者、以道事君、不可則止。]
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https://wist.info/confucius/494/

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Jusqu'à récemment, si tu évoquais Hitler et les nazis pour clore la discussion, tu prouvais que tu manquais d'arguments et tu gagnais 1 point Godwin.

Maintenant, t'es un génie.

On est rendu là faut croire.

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