by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 18, 2013 | Archive, Cicero, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“True Law (which he had defined as Natural Law) is right reason in agreement with nature: it is of universal application, unchanging and ever lasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. It is a sin to try to alter...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Debt, Philosophers, Quotes
“Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow” Seneca, Roman philosopher, mid 1st century AD.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Cicero, Freedom, Government, Philosophers
“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of...
