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"Men decide far more problems
by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion,
or some other inward emotion,
than by
reality,
authority,
any legal standard,
judicial precedent, or
statute."
--- Marcus Tullius Cicero, January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC
"Break in his memory, like a book with several leaves torn out"
---Jules Claretie, December 3, 1840 - December 23, 1913
"Break in his memory, like a book with several leaves torn out"
---Jules Claretie, December 3, 1840 - December 23, 1913
"There is a demand in these days for men
who can make wrong appear right."
---Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
"Are we then bound to others
only by the enforcement of laws"
---Émile Souvestre (April 15, 1806 - July 5, 1854)
"Arrive at the meaning
by the definition of exclusion"
---Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829–October 20, 1900)
"Socrates used to call the opinions of the many
by the name of Lamiae,--bugbears to frighten children."
Meditations Book XI, 23
---Marcus Aurelius (April 26, 121 – March 17, 180)
without love-
thus trained
to become expert plotters of intrigue:
fruits of institutionally administered love