Society and the World

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

O imitatores, servum pecus.

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude.

Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati.

Si possis recte, si non, quocumque modo rem.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

Towery city and branchy between towers;

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy’s sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy’s sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind.

We pause to … recall what our country has done for each of us and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Liberties … depend on the silence of the law.

Liberties … depend on the silence of the law.

For as the nature of foul weather, lieth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.