Non nobis solum nati sum us. I thought our much-loved Father Pedro Arrupe
had coined the expression 'Men for Others' in his famous 1973 address to European Jesuit Alumnilae in Valencia. However, Jesuit historian Father John O'Malley has traced this term to a line from Cicero, beloved by Renaissance humanists, which the early Jesuits enjoyed quoting: non nobis solum nati sumus. 'We are not born for ourselves alone'.