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What Sweetness Is Left In Life, If You Take Away Friendship? Robbing Life Of Friendship Is Like Robbing The World Of The Sun. A True Friend Is More To Be Esteemed Than Kinsfolk.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What Sweetness Is Left

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What Sweetness Is Left In Life, If You Take Away Friendship? Robbing Life Of Friendship Is Like Robbing The World Of The Sun. A True Friend Is More To Be Esteemed Than Kinsfolk.

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The Recovery Of Freedom Is So Splendid A Thing That We Must Not Shun Even Death When Seeking To Recover It.

The Precepts Of The Law Are These: To Live Honestly, To Injure No One, And To Give Everyone Else His Due.

Friendship Was Given By Nature To Be An Assistant To Virtue, Not A Companion In Vice.

Long Life Is Denied Us; Therefore Let Us Do Something To Show That We Have Lived.

When A Government Becomes Powerful It Is Destructive, Extravagant And Violent; It Is An Usurer Which Takes Bread From Innocent Mouths And Deprives Honorable Men Of Their Substance, For Votes With Which To Perpetuate Itself.

Modesty Is That Feeling By Which Honorable Shame Acquires A Valuable And Lasting Authority.

Every Stage Of Human Life, Except The Last, Is Marked Out By Certain And Defined Limits; Old Age Alone Has No Precise And Determinate Boundary.

A Dissolute And Intemperate Youth Hands Down The Body To Old Age In A Worn-out State.

It Is The Soul Itself Which Sees And Hears, And Not Those Parts Which Are, As It Were, But Windows To The Soul.

Window To The Soul

History Is The Witness That Testifies To The Passing Of Time.

History Of Life

Virtue Is Its Own Reward.

There Is Not A Moment Without Some Duty.

. . . For Until That God Who Rules All The Region Of The Sky . . . Has Freed You From The Fetters Of Your Body, You Cannot Gain Admission Here. Men Were Created With The Understanding That They Were To Look After That Sphere Called Earth, Which You See In The Middle Of The Temple. Minds Have Been Given To Them Out Of The Eternal Fires You Call Fixed Stars And Planets, Those Spherical Solids Which, Quickened With Divine Minds, Journey Through Their Circuits And Orbits With Amazing Speed.

Sweet Is The Memory Of Past Troubles.

Let Arms Yield To The Toga, Let The [victor's] Laurel Yield To The [orator's] Tongue.

History Is Indeed The Witness Of The Times, The Light Of Truth.

No Man Can Be Brave Who Thinks Pain The Greatest Evil; Nor Temperate, Who Considers Pleasure The Highest God. [lat., Fortis Vero, Dolorem Summum Malum Judicans; Aut Temperans, Voluptatem Summum Bonum Statuens, Esse Certe Nullo Modo Potest.]

Constant Practice Devoted To One Subject Often Outdoes Both Intelligence And Skill. - Assiduus Usus Uni Rei Deditus Et Ingenium Et Artem Saepe Vincit

Let Us Not Go Over The Old Ground But Rather Prepare For What Is To Come.

Let The Punishment Be Equal With The Offence. [lat., Noxiae Poena Par Esto.]

To Freemen, Threats Are Impotent.

In A Disordered Mind, As In A Disordered Body, Soundness Of Health Is Impossible.

All I Can Do Is To Urge On You To Regard Friendship As The Greatest Thing In The World; For There Is Nothing Which So Fits In With Our Nature, Or Is So Exactly What We Want In Prosperity Or Adversity.

Law Is The Highest Reason Implanted In Nature, Which Commands What Ought To Be Done And Forbids The Opposite.

If Only Every Man Would Make Proper Use Of His Strength And Do His Utmost, He Need Never Regret His Limited Ability.

The Authority Of Those Who Teach Is Often An Obstacle To Those Who Want To Learn.

Rashness Is The Companion Of Youth, Prudence Of Old Age.

Man Is His Own Worst Enemy.

Silent Enim Leges Inter Arma (laws Are Silent In Times Of War).

Within The Character Of The Citizen, Lies The Welfare Of The Nation.

Those Who Do Not Know History Will Forever Remain Children

Politeness And An Affable Address Are Our Best Introduction.

A True Friend Is A Sort Of Second Self.

Old Age Is By Nature Rather Talkative.

For Every Man's Nature Is Concealed With Many Folds Of Disguise, And Covered As It Were With Various Veils. His Brows, His Eyes, And Very Often His Countenance, Are Deceitful, And His Speech Is Most Commonly A Lie.

Friendship Makes Prosperity Brighter, While It Lightens Adversity By Sharing Its Griefs And Anxieties. [lat., Secundas Res Splendidiores Facit Amicitia, Et Adversas Partiens Communicansque Leviores.]

Grief Is Not In The Nature Of Things, But In Opinion.

In A Disturbed Mind, As In A Body In The Same State, Health Can Not Exist.

The Harvest Of Old Age Is The Recollection And Abundance Of Blessing Previously Secured.

Our Minds Are Rendered Buoyant By Exercise.

Mathematics Is An Obscure Field, An Abstruse Science, Complicated And Exact; Yet So Many Have Attained Perfection In It That We Might Conclude Almost Anyone Who Seriously Applied Himself Would Achieve A Measure Of Success.

Learning Maketh Young Men Temperate, Is The Comfort Of Old Age, Standing For Wealth With Poverty, And Serving As An Ornament To Riches.

Falsehoods Border On Truths.

Socrates Was The First To Call Philosophy Down From The Heavens And To Place It In Cities, And Even To Introduce It Into Homes And Compel It To Inquire About Life And Standards And Goods And Evils.

The First Law For The Historian Is That He Shall Never Dare Utter An Untruth. The Second Is That He Shall Suppress Nothing That Is True. Moreover, There Shall Be No Suspicion Of Partiality In His Writing, Or Of Malice.

They Are Eloquent Who Can Speak Low Things Acutely, And Of Great Things With Dignity, And Of Moderate Things With Temper.

Who Doesn't Know That The First Law Of History Is Not To Dare To Say Anything False, And The Second Is Not To Refrain From Saying Anything True?

It Is A Great Proof Of Talents To Be Able To Recall The Mind From The Senses, And To Separate Thought From Habit.

All Things Tend To Corrupt Perverted Minds.

It Is Not A Virtue, But A Deceptive Copy And Imitation Of Virtue, When We Are Led To The Performance Of Duty By Pleasure As Its Recompense.

Time Puts An End To Speculation In Opinions, And Confirms The Laws Of Nature.

There Is Nothing God Cannot Do.

But As To The Affection Which Anyone May Have For Us, It Is The First Demand Of Duty That We Do Most For Him Who Loves Us Most; But We Should Measure Affection, Not Like Youngsters, By The Ardour Of Its Passion, But Rather By Its Strength And Constancy.

In This Statement, My Scipio, I Build On Your Own Admirable Definition, That There Can Be No Community, Properly So Called, Unless It Be Regulated By A Combination Of Rights. And By This Definition It Appears That A Multitude Of Men May Be Just As Tyrannical As A Single Despot And Indeed This Is The Most Odious Of All Tyrannies, Since No Monster Can Be More Barbarous Than The Mob, Which Assumes The Name And Mask Of The People.

For The Laws Are Dumb In The Midst Of Arms.

The False Is Nothing But An Imitation Of The True.

Prosperity Demands Of Us More Prudence And Moderation Than Adversity.

Any Man May Make A Mistake; None But A Fool Will Stick To It. Second Thoughts Are Best As The Proverb Says.

Nothing Is So Unpredictable As A Throw Of The Dice, And Yet Every Man Who Plays Often Will At Some Time Or Other Make A Venus-cast: Now And Then He Indeed Will Make It Twice And Even Thrice In Succession. Are We Going To Be So Feebleminded Then As To Aver That Such A Thing Happened By The Personal Intervention Of Venus Rather Than By Pure Luck?

A Mental Stain Can Neither Be Blotted Out By The Passage Of Time Nor Washed Away By Any Waters.

If A Man Could Mount To Heaven And Survey The Mighty Universe, His Admiration Of Its Beauties Would Be Much Diminished Unless He Had Someone To Share In His Pleasure.

Laws Should Be Interpreted In A Liberal Sense So That Their Intention May Be Preserved.

Vicious Habits Are So Odious And Degrading That They Transform The Individual Who Practices Them Into An Incarnate Demon.

Things Sacred Should Not Only Be Touched With The Hands, But Unviolated In Thought. [lat., Res Sacros Non Modo Manibus Attingi, Sed Ne Cogitatione Quidem Violari Fas Fuit.]

Honor Is The Reward Of Virtue.

No One Dances Sober, Unless He Is Insane.

We Rejoice In The Joys Of Our Friends As Much As We Do Our Own, And We Are Equally Grieved At Their Sorrows. Wherefore The Wise People Will Feel Toward Their Friends As They Do Toward Themselves, And Whatever Labor They Would Encounter With A View To Their Own Pleasure, They Will Encounter Also For The Sake Of Their Friends.

It Is Fortune, Not Wisdom, That Rules Man's Life.

But The Night Mother Is Mother To All! It Is Her Voice We Follow! Her Will! Would You Dare Risk Disobedience? And Surely... Punishment?

In A Promise, What You Thought, And Not What You Said, Is Always To Be Considered.

Dissimulation Creeps Gradually Into The Minds Of Men.

All Soils Are Not Fertile.

This Is A Proof Of A Well-trained Mind, To Rejoice In What Is Good And To Grieve At The Opposite.

The Foundations Of Justice Are That On One Shall Suffer Wrong; Then, That The Public Good Be Promoted.

He Who Obeys With Modesty Appears Worthy Of Being Some Day A Commander.

Time Destroys The Speculation Of Men, But It Confirms Nature.

Men Of Different Tastes Have Different Pursuits.

Old Age, Especially An Honored Old Age, Has So Great Authority, That This Is Of More Value Than All The Pleasures Of Youth.

For There Is Assuredly Nothing Dearer To A Man Than Wisdom, And Though Age Takes Away All Else, It Undoubtedly Brings Us That.

Freedom Suppressed And Again Regained Bites With Keener Fangs Than Freedom Never Endangered.

All Men Have A Feeling, That They Would Rather You Told Them A Civil Lie Than Give Them A Point Blank Refusal.... If You Make A Promise, The Thing Is Still Uncertain, Depends On A Future Day, And Concerns But Few People; But If You Refuse You Alienate People To A Certainty And At Once, And Many People Too.

O Philosophy, Life's Guide! O Searcher-out Of Virtue And Expeller Of Vices! What Could We And Every Age Of Men Have Been Without Thee? Thou Hast Produced Cities; Thou Hast Called Men Scattered About Into The Social Enjoyment Of Life. [lat., O Vitae Philosophia Dux! O Virtutis Indagatrix, Expultrixque Vitiorum! Quid Non Modo Nos, Sed Omnino Vita Hominum Sine Et Esse Potuisset? Tu Urbes Peperisti; Tu Dissipatos Homines In Societatum Vitae Convocasti.]

Whatever That Be Which Thinks, Understands, Wills, And Acts, It Is Something Celestial And Divine.

Friendship Is The Only Point In Human Affairs Concerning The Benefit Of Which All, With One Voice, Agree.

Exile Is Terrible To Those Who Have, As It Were, A Circumscribed Habitation; But Not To Those Who Look Upon The Whole Globe But As One City.

The Evil Implanted In Man By Nature Spreads So Imperceptibly, When The Habit Of Wrong-doing Is Unchecked, That He Himself Can Set No Limit To His Shamelessness.

The Forehead Is The Gate Of The Mind.

Thou Shouldst Eat To Live; Not Live To Eat. [lat., Esse Oportet Ut Vivas, Non Vivere Ut Edas.]

If The Oarsmen Of A Fast-moving Ship Suddenly Cease To Row, The Suspension Of The Driving Force Of The Oars Doesn't Prevent The Vessel From Continuing To Move On Its Course. And With A Speech It Is Much The Same. After He Has Finished Reciting The Document, The Speaker Will Still Be Able To Maintain The Same Tone Without A Break, Borrowing Its Momentum And Impulse From The Passage He Has Just Read Out.

We Learn Nothing From History Except That We Learn Nothing From History.

Nature Herself Makes The Wise Man Rich.

Wisdom Is The Only Thing Which Can Relieve Us From The Sway Of The Passions And The Fear Of Danger, And Which Can Teach Us To Bear The Injuries Of Fortune Itself With Moderation, And Which Shows Us All The Ways Which Lead To Tranquility And Peace.

Kindness Is Produced By Kindness.

Take From A Man His Reputation For Probity, And The More Shrewd And Clever He Is, The More Hated And Mistrusted He Becomes.

There Is Sufficient Reward In The Mere Consciousness Of A Good Action.

The Dutifulness Of Children Is The Foundation Of All Virtues.

If I Am Mistaken In My Opinion That The Human Soul Is Immortal, I Willingly Err; Nor Would I Have This Pleasant Error Extorted From Me; And If, As Some Minute Philosophers Suppose, Death Should Deprive Me Of My Being, I Need Not Fear The Raillery Of Those Pretended Philosophers When They Are No More.

It Is The Stain And Disgrace Of The Age To Envy Virtue, And To Be Anxious To Crush The Very Flower Of Dignity.

If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written A Shorter Letter.

For No Phase Of Life, Whether Public Or Private, Whether In Business Or In The Home, Whether One Is Working On What Concerns Oneself Alone Or Dealing With Another, Can Be Without Its Moral Duty; On The Discharge Of Such Duties Depends All That Is Morally Right, And On Their Neglect All That Is Morally Wrong In Life.

Neither Can Embellishments Of Language Be Found Without Arrangement And Expression Of Thoughts, Nor Can Thoughts Be Made To Shine Without The Light Of Language.

In Our Amusements A Certain Limit Is To Be Placed That We May Not Devote Ourselves To A Life Of Pleasure And Thence Fall Into Immorality.

Next To God We Are Nothing. To God We Are Everything.

Persistence In A Single View Has Never Been Regarded As A Merit In Political Leaders.

Never Can Custom Conquer Nature, For She Is Ever Unconquered.

You Must Therefore Love Me, Myself, And Not My Circumstances, If We Are To Be Real Friends.

There Has Never Been A Poet Or Orator Who Thought Another Better Than Himself.

...the Counsels Of The Divine Mind Had Some Glimpse Of Truth When They Said That Men Are Born In Order To Suffer The Penalty For Sins Committed In A Former Life.

Nothing Is More Noble, Nothing More Venerable Than Fidelity. Faithfulness And Truth Are The Most Sacred Excellences And Endowments Of The Human Mind.

Dum Spiro, Spero- As Long As I Breathe, I Hope.

If A Man Cannot Feel The Power Of God When He Looks Upon The Stars, Then I Doubt Whether He Is Capable Of Any Feeling At All.

Everyone Has The Obligation To Ponder Well His Own Specific Traits Of Character. He Must Also Regulate Them Adequately And Not Wonder Whether Someone Else's Traits Might Suit Him Better. The More Definitely His Own A Man's Character Is, The Better It Fits Him.

It Is Better To Receive Than To Do Injury.

Our Minds Possess By Nature An Insatiable Desire To Know The Truth.

Things Perfected By Nature Are Better Than Those Finished By Art.

Natural Environment

The Safety Of The People Shall Be The Highest Law.

To Some Extent I Liken Slavery To Death.

It Is Difficult To Remember All, And Ungracious To Omit Any.

Be Sure That It Is Not You That Is Mortal, But Only Your Body. For That Man Whom Your Outward Form Reveals Is Not Yourself; The Spirit Is The True Self, Not That Physical Figure Which And Be Pointed Out By Your Finger.

People Don't Know The Value Of What They Have Until It Is Gone: Freedom Suppressed And Again Regained Bites With Keener Fangs Than Freedom Never Endangered.... Liberty Is Rendered Even More Precious By The Recollection Of Servitude. Don't Wait Till Freedom Is Gone Before You Enjoy, Value, Support, Protect And Make The Most Of It!

It Is Not Only Arrogant, But It Is Profligate, For A Man To Disregard The World's Opinion Of Himself.

The Nobler A Man, The Harder It Is For Him To Suspect Inferiority In Others.

All Places Are Filled With Fools. [lat., Stultorum Plenea Sunt Omnia.]

No One Has Lived A Short Life Who Has Performed Its Duties With Unblemished Character.

Freedom Is A Man's Natural Power Of Doing What He Pleases, So Far As He Is Not Prevented By Force Or Law.

Ability Without Honor Is Useless.

Not To Know What Happened Before One Was Born Is Always To Be A Child.

Inhumanity Is Harmful In Every Age. - Inhumanitas Omni Aetate Molesta Est

The Human Mind Ever Longs For Occupation.

Old Age By Nature Is Rather Talkative.

Even If You Have Nothing To Write, Write And Say So.

When You Have No Basis For An Argument, Abuse The Plaintiff.

Because All The Sick Do Not Recover, Therefore Medicine Is Not An Art.

For While We Are Enclosed In These Confinements Of The Body, We Perform As A Kind Of Duty The Heavy Task Of Necessity; For The Soul From Heaven Has Been Cast Down From Its Dwelling On High And Sunk, As It Were, Into The Earth, A Place Just The Opposite To Godlike Nature And Eternity. But I Believe That The Immortal Gods Have Sown Souls In Human Bodies So There Might Exist Beings To Guard The World And After Contemplating The Order Of Heaven, Might Imitate It By Their Moderation And Steadfastness In Life.

No One Could Ever Meet Death For His Country Without The Hope Of Immortality.

Six Mistakes Mankind Keeps Making Century After Century: Believing That Personal Gain Is Made By Crushing Others; Worrying About Things That Cannot Be Changed Or Corrected; Insisting That A Thing Is Impossible Because We Cannot Accomplish It; Refusing To Set Aside Trivial Preferences; Neglecting Development And Refinement Of The Mind; Attempting To Compel Others To Believe And Live As We Do.

For As The Law Is Set Over The Magistrate, Even So Are The Magistrates Set Over The People. And Therefore, It May Be Truly Said, "that The Magistrate Is A Speaking Law, And The Law Is A Silent Magistrate.

Not To Know What Has Been Transacted In Former Times Is To Continue Always A Child.

I Have Never Yet Known A Poet Who Did Not Think Himself Super-excellent.

He Is An Eloquent Man Who Can Treat Humble Subjects With Delicacy, Lofty Things Impressively, And Moderate Things Temperately.

Secret Enmities Are More To Be Feared Than Open Ones.

It Might Be Pardonable To Refuse To Defend Some Men, But To Defend Them Negligently Is Nothing Short Of Criminal.

In The Approach To Virtue There Are Many Steps.

Nothing Is Difficult In The Eyes Of A Lover.

Diligence Which, As It Avails In All Things, Is Also Of The Utmost Moment In Pleading Causes. Diligence Is To Be Particularly Cultivated By Us; It Is To Be Constantly Exerted; It Is Capable Of Effecting Almost Everything.

Friends, Though Absent, Are Still Present.

The Hours Pass And The Days And The Months And The Years, And The Past Time Never Returns.

This Seems To Be Advanced As The Surest Basis For Our Belief In The Existence Of Gods, That There Is No Race So Uncivilized, No One In The World So Barbarous That His Mind Has No Inkling Of A Belief In Gods.

Knowledge Which Is Divorced From Justice, May Be Called Cunning Rather Than Wisdom.

A Good Man Will Not Lie, Although It Be For His Profit.

It Is A True Saying That 'one Falsehood Easily Leads To Another.'

Dogs Wait For Us Faithfully.

Opinionum Enim Commenta Delet Dies; Naturæ Judicia Confirmat. Time Destroys The Groundless Conceits Of Men; It Confirms Decisions Founded On Reality.

No One Has Leave To Sin.

To Those Who Are Engaged In Commercial Dealings, Justice Is Indispensable For The Conduct Of Business.

As I Breathe, I Hope.

The More Virtuous Any Man Is, The Less Easily Does He Suspect Others To Be Vicious.

Friendship Is The Only Thing In The World Concerning The Usefulness Of Which All Mankind Are Agreed.

To Stumble Twice Against The Same Stone, Is A Proverbsial Disgrace.

What Is Dishonestly Got Vanishes In Profligacy.

A Man Does Not Wonder At What He Sees Frequently, Even Though He Be Ignorant Of The Reason. If Anything Happens Which He Has Not Seen Before, He Calls It A Prodigy.

Here Is A Man Whose Life And Actions The World Has Already Condemned - Yet Whose Enormous Fortune...has Already Brought Him Acquittal!

To Be Ignorant Of What Occurred Before You Were Born Is To Remain Always A Child.

Nothing In Oratory Is More Important Than To Win For The Orator The Favour Of His Hearer, And To Have The Latter So Affected As To Be Swayed By Something Resembling An Impulse Of The Spirit Impetu Quodam Animi Or Emotion Perturbatione, Rather Than By Judgment Or Deliberation. For Men Decide Far More Problems By Hate, Or Love, Or Lust, Or Rage, Or Sorrow, Or Joy, Or Hope, Or Fear, Or Illusion, Or Some Other Inward Emotion Aliqua Permotione Mentis, Than By Reality Or Authority, Or Any Legal Standard, Or Judicial Precedent Or Statute.

I Look Upon The Pleasure Which We Take In A Garden As One Of The Most Innocent Delights In Human Life. . . It Gives Us A Great Insight Into The Contrivance And Wisdom Of Nature, And Suggests Innumerable Subjects For Meditation.

The Chief Recommendation Is Modesty, Then Dutiful Conduct Toward Parents, Then Affection For Kindred.

Man Must Suffer To Be Wise.

Sed Nescio Quo Modo Nihil Tam Absurde Dici Potest Quod Non Dicatur Ab Aliquo Philosphorum. (there Is Nothing So Absurd But Some Philosopher Has Said It.)

The Spirit Is The True Self, Not That Physical Figure Which Can Be Pointed Out By Your Finger.

What Is Dignity Without Honesty?

The Real Friend Is Another Self.

Not In Opinion But In Nature Is Law Founded.

In A Republic This Rule Ought To Be Observed: That The Majority Should Not Have The Predominant Power.

Memory Is The Treasury And Guardian Of All Things.

Few Are Those Who Wish To Be Endowed With Virtue Rather Than To Seem So.

This, Therefore, Is A Law Not Found In Books, But Written On The Fleshly Tablets Of The Heart, Which We Have Not Learned From Man, Received Or Read, But Which We Have Caught Up From Nature Herself, Sucked In And Imbibed; The Knowledge Of Which We Were Not Taught, But For Which We Were Made; We Received It Not By Education, But By Intuition.

Time Is The Herald Of Truth.

The Wise Are Instructed By Reason, Average Minds By Experience, The Stupid By Necessity And The Brute By Instinct.

Summer Lasts Not For Ever; Seasons Succeed Each Other.

Vicious Habits Are So Great A Stain To Human Nature, And So Odious In Themselves, That Every Person Actuated By Right Reason Would Avoid Them, Though He Were Sure They Would Be Always Concealed Both From God And Man, And Had No Future Punishment Entailed Upon Them.

You Might As Well Take The Sun Out Of The Sky As Friendship From Life: For The Immortal Gods Have Given Us Nothing Better Or More Delightful.

The Life Of The Dead Consists In The Recollection Cherished Of Them By The Living.

A Thankful Heart Is The Greatest Virtue.

Not To Know What Happened Before You Were Born Is To Be A Child Forever. For What Is The Time Of A Man, Except It Be Interwoven With That Memory Of Ancient Things Of A Superior Age?

If We Lose Affection And Kindliness From Our Life: We Lose All That Gives It Charm.

Hatred Is A Settled Anger.

In Honorable Dealing You Should Consider What You Intended, Not What You Said Or Thought.

In All Matters, Before Beginning, A Diligent Preparation Should Be Made.

The Greater The Difficulty, The Greater The Glory.

In The Conduct Of Almost Every Affair Slowness And Procrastination Are Hateful

Procrastination

I Will Go Further, And Assert That Nature Without Culture Can Often Do More To Deserve Praise Than Culture Without Nature.

I Follow Nature As The Surest Guide, And Resign Myself With Implicit Obedience To Her Sacred Ordinances.

In Friendship We Find Nothing False Or Insincere; Everything Is Straight Forward, And Springs From The Heart.

To Be Content With What We Possess Is The Greatest And Most Secure Of Riches.

There Is Nothing So Absurd That Some Philosopher Has Not Already Said It.

I Know That It Is Likely That As Worship Of The Gods Declines, Faith Between Men And All Human Society Will Disappear, As Well As That Most Excellent Of All Virtues, Which Is Justice.

A War Is Never Undertaken By The Ideal State, Except In Defense Of Its Honor Or Its Safety.

The Name Of Peace Is Sweet, And The Thing Itself Is Beneficial, But There Is A Great Difference Between Peace And Servitude. Peace Is Freedom In Tranquillity, Servitude Is The Worst Of All Evils, To Be Resisted Not Only By War, But Even By Death.

When Time And Need Require, We Should Resist With All Our Might, And Prefer Death To Slavery And Disgrace.

If You Would Abolish Covetousness, You Must Abolish Its Mother, Profusion.

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