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"Post coito omne animal triste"?
Can someone say something about the source and context of this observation? And is it from St. Augustine (as I originally thought) or from Aristotle, or from Galen. or ...
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Found two references
1. [philosophy] December 14, 2003 7:46:00 PM CET
post coitum omne animal triste est,
2.The phenomenon is referred to by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza in his Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione
Would appear to originated from latin note no. 2
The phrase is a missmatch of french and latin. Triste is french for sad and post is latin for after. Animal looks like latess english and the latin probably animalia.
Will leave you to follow up on the wikipedia info
Source(s): http://musik.antville.org/stories/620108/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-coital_tristesse
