Maxioms by Marcus Tullius Cicero
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he read more
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.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at read more
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
