The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer...

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer...

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad...

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad...

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a...

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a...

The law is silent during war

The law is silent during war

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes

What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes

In time of war the laws are silent.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

While there's life, there's hope.

While there's life, there's hope.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Whatever you do, do with all your might

Whatever you do, do with all your might

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Reason should direct and appetite obey

Reason should direct and appetite obey

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair...

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is...

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is...