regarded as inherent unalterable qualities. The following are some of these expressions: Jetzt sehe ich, wie du bist! (Now I know your nature!) In dir habe ich mich geirrt.

(I was mistaken in you.) “Now I see what you are!” Voil� donc, comme tu es! (This, then, is what you are!) So bin ich nicht! (I am not a person of that sort!) Ich bin nicht der Mann, der f�hig w�re, Sie zu hintergehen. (I am not the man to impose upon you.) Also: les �mes bien n�es (persons well-born, i.e., noble-minded), the Spanish bien nacido; e??e??? (properly “well-born”), e????e?a (properly “nobility of birth”) used for “virtuous” and “virtue”; generosioris animi amicus (a friend of lofty mind. Generosus: lit. “of noble birth”), etc.