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

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than...

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than...

The good of the people is the greatest law.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

To live is to think.

To live is to think.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes...

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes...

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second...

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second...

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he...

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he...

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with...

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with...

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Laws are inoperative in war

Laws are inoperative in war

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth....

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth....

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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...

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and...

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and...

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise...

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise...

No sane man will dance.

No sane man will dance.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for...

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for...